Financial Abuse Resources for Survivors

Financial Abuse Resources:

Money may not buy happiness, but it does get you to a place where you feel safe. And safe? That’s a very good place to be.

A sincere thank you to Amikar Rodriguez from annuity.org for sending me an in-depth look at financial abuse. Read on to see if you can identify this overlooked abuse in your own life,

or in those closest to you.

Financial abuse? What does it look like? Trafficking is the illegal buying and selling of goods. But what many people don't realize is that financial abuse is part of many relationships … not just trafficker and trafficked. Financial abuse takes place in what many consider a ‘normal healthy relationship’. What once was considered ‘normal’ is now recognized as abuse.

By the numbers (PA coalition against domestic abuse):

1. #1 reason victims stay in an abusive relationship is for financial/economic reasons

2. 98% of abusive relationships involve financial abuse

3. 59% of victims have ruined credit because of abuser

4. 70% of domestic victims were unable to hold down a job

5. 53% of domestic victims lost their job because of their abuser

Yet, 78% of Americans don’t recognize financial abuse as domestic abuse.

By red flags (surviving economic abuse.org) Are you living with any of the abusive red flags listed below? Empower yourself with education and independence. It's an abusive relationship if you are not being treated as an equal and someone is: