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Wisconsin Strong Financial Fitness Challenge
May 21, 2021

Financial stress can affect your health in many ways; it spills over into your home life, job, relationships with family and your friendships. That’s why UW System supports Wisconsin Strong, a unique financial wellness education program provided by the Department of Employee Trust Funds (ETF).

Wisconsin Strong is designed to help you improve financial wellness and maximize your Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) benefits – at all career stages. Plus, it’s absolutely free to you and your family.

We encourage you to take advantage of the following Wisconsin Strong financial wellness education, resources, and tools:

• College Savings Made Simple - When you open a new Edvest account between May 24 and May 31, you’ll receive a $50 match! Find out how you can take advantage of this limited time offer from Edvest, Wisconsin’s College Savings Plan.
• Financial Fitness Challenge - Get a baseline on your financial stress and interests by taking the 5-minute Financial Fitness Checkup, a confidential self-assessment. Then gain access to a personalized playlist of relevant financial courses. This is a value of $1,000 and it’s free to you and your family. Take the Challenge now.
• Well Wisconsin Program Incentive - After you complete your Financial Fitness Challenge, you’ll receive a reward code that can be applied as a well-being activity towards earning your $150 Well Wisconsin gift card.
• Your WRS Benefits - Learn how to maximize your WRS pension, health, deferred compensation, and other benefits. Attend an ETF webinar or find quick and easy-to-access online resources for individuals who are new hires, mid-career, nearing retirement, and post-retirement.

Financial wellness is a journey, not a one-time event, and your financial wellness is important to us. We encourage you to share these valuable resources with your family. Over the next several months watch for monthly financial wellness webinars offered by Summit Credit Union and resources from other Wisconsin Strong partners to help you with debt management, budgeting, investments, estate planning, retirement planning, and more.

On Twitter, follow along at #WIStrongSecurity!

Source: UW System Human Resources
Categories: WI Retirement System (WRS)