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Financial Management

This section includes a series of bulletins developed to assist families in understanding and coping with financial management issues. These bulletins were developed in partnership with Michigan State University Extension and Michigan Department of Agriculture through the Bovine TB Eradication Project.

  • Income Loss: How to address the stress and prioritize needs
    When income loss occurs in the family, how do you address stress and prioritize needs financially? This fact sheet addresses both the financial and family stress issues associated with income loss. It specifically examines need prioritization as well as techniques to move forward following loss.

  • Meeting Families Insurance Needs
    Insurance is a necessary component to ensuring your family’s health and wellbeing if an income loss occurs. This fact sheet examines the need for insurance so families may be prepared if economic devastation occurs in their family.

  • What are my options if I have a Bovine TB positive animal?
    What are my options if I have a Bovine TB positive animal outlines a variety of financial options for farm families if they are faced with the issue of having a Bovine TB positive animal on their farm.

  • How to Change Personal Resources into Income
    How to Change Personal Resources into Income provides ideas and guidelines for families to create a larger amount of discretionary income in their life. In addition, it describes how families can utilize their personal assets and resources and adapt those resources into a source of income.

  • What To Do When Bills Pile Up: Sharpening your Survival Skills
    Through sharpening your survival skills, this bulletin provides tips and resources to assist families in making the most with the resources and income that they have. It helps families look at how to efficiently manage situations when the bills pile up and assists in sharpening the survival skills of families.

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Michigan State University Extension programs and materials are open to all without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, marital status or family status. Issued in furtherance of MSU Extension work, acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Margaret A. Bethel, Director, MSU Extension, East Lansing, MI 48824. This information is for educational purposes only. Reference to commercial products or trade names does not imply endorsement by MSU Extension or bias against those not mentioned.