Practical Money Skills for Life

Consumer Action recommends "Practical Money Skills for Life," a web site with money management resources, lesson plans and interactive learning games.

Practical Money Skills for Life is a free, award-winning, teacher-tested and teacher-approved financial education program that is available in English, Spanish and Chinese. The program, created by Visa, Inc., provides money management resources and lesson plans tailored for use at home, in the classroom or at work. It also contains an array of tips to help consumers prepare for life changing financial events, from planning for the fiscal realities of parenthood, to saving for college, to retirement. Go to Practical Money Skills for Life.

Visa also offers What’s My Score, a leading higher education consumer awareness initiative that guides young adults through the ABC’s of a FICO credit score, from factors that can lower a score, to ways on improving it.