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America Saves Week 2024: Paying Down Debt IS Saving

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Just like having a plan for saving is important, so is having a plan to pay down your debt. Recent reports show that individuals have increased their usage of credit cards due to the ongoing inflation and rising costs of our basic needs like housing, food, and transportation. Couple that with the return of student loan debt repayment and the interest rates increase, and the ability to pay down debt is exacerbating the savings crisis, hindering the ability to save…
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America Saves Week 2024: Saving For Major Milestones

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How do you save for the big things, like homeownership, retirement, and education, when saving for the small things is difficult? Saving for competing priorities can feel overwhelming, but there are ways to break these big goals down into reasonable, practical steps even if you aren’t where you want to be financially. Today is day 3 of America Saves Week and we’re focusing on saving for major life milestones while not abandoning your other financial needs or wants. Today, we…
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America Saves Week 2024: Saving for the Unexpected

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It happens to all of us: you’re saving for something that you’re really excited about and before you know it an unexpected event occurs, causing you to dip into your designated savings. Every day, Americans are forced to use money they were saving for something they truly value or credit to pay for an unexpected expense. On Day 2 of America Saves Week, we want you to embrace establishing an emergency fund, along with shifting the narrative around emergency savings….
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America Saves Week 2024: Saving Automatically

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It’s America Saves Week! Each year we encourage our community to dedicate this week to pause and do a financial check-in, and this year is no different. Join us this week to get a clear view of where your finances are, where you want them to be, and what small steps you can take to put you on a path forward. We all have unique circumstances, that in many cases make it difficult (or nearly impossible) for many to save…
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America Saves Week: April 8-12, 2024

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Midwest Community Federal Credit Union is a proud participant in America Saves Week, an annual national campaign that encourages and empowers individuals, families, employers, and communities to check-in on their finances. The campaign focuses on several important topics that make up your financial landscape with a realistic economic approach, including saving for emergencies and unexpected expenses, leveraging automatic savings, retirement, and reducing debt; as well as more niche topics like talking to your family about money, understanding your employer’s financial…
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Everything You Need to Know About Text Message (Smishing) Scams

Fraud

As text messaging becomes more prevalent around the world, text message scams are also becoming more common. The fraudsters sending these messages continue to evolve their techniques, getting increasingly convincing to lure personal information. This personal information can be used to access bank accounts or other online accounts like your email. Smishing uses highly convincing text messages to trick someone into providing private information or downloading malicious programs to a mobile phone. What is smishing? Another term for scam text messages,…
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How to spot the most common types of internet scams

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Internet fraud is on the rise. Many of these scams used spoofing, when fraudsters pretend to be a legitimate organization or company. Read on to learn how to spot spoofing and other common methods used by scammers online.   What is spoofing? Spoofing is when a fraudster uses an email address, sender name, phone number or website URL to try and convince you that you’re dealing with a trusted source. Sometimes, fraudsters have the technology to trick your phone or computer…
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Beware of These Recent Scams

Fraud

To protect yourself, it’s important to be familiar with trending scams — keep reading to learn about the latest. Never share your online banking User ID or password. MCFCU will NEVER contact you and ask for it — and there’s no reason anyone else needs it, ever. Student loan scams Americans lost an astounding $5 billion to student loan fraud in 2022. As students graduate high school and look to college in the fall, scammers are busier than ever. And if…
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5 Things Midwest Community Will Never Call and Ask

Fraud

Fraudsters use all sorts of methods to steal information and gain access to your accounts — including pretending to be from Midwest Community or another financial institution. It’s rare that we will call you, and if we do, we’ll never ask for any of the information below. Beware of requests coming in via text message and email too — those are other ways that fraudsters are stealing information. Print out or bookmark this page so you have a handy reference…
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75 Years of International Credit Union Day®

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On October 19, 2023, Midwest Community Federal Credit Union will join over 56,000 credit unions around the world to celebrate International Credit Union (ICU) Day®. This year marks the 75th anniversary of International Credit Union Day®. ICU Day highlights the many ways that credit unions across the world help members work towards achieving their financial goals. Credit unions were built on the principle of “people helping people.” We’ve seen that philosophy in action for more than 100 years, with credit…
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Imagine the possibilities. At Midwest Community, we are well-known for advancing our employees and promoting from within at all levels of the organization. Take the first step in starting your career and grow with us!

Float Member Service Representatives – may have days scheduled at any location (Defiance, Bryan, Napoleon). Computer literacy is required and cash handling or banking experience is preferred. Please see the job overview for a list of duties.

Starting pay is $18.56 an hour
$20.89 an hour after 180 days of service
$23.21 an hour after 1 year of service

 

Resumes may be submitted to Andrew Scharlacken at ascharlacken@midcomm.org.

All are welcome. Midwest Community Federal Credit Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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