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GreenPath Financial Wellness

Lapeer County Bank & Trust Co. is proud to announce our new partnership with GreenPath Financial Wellness. This partnership gives our customers access to credit  counseling services and several financial education tools. This is a great service for our customers to take advantage of free of charge. The counseling sessions are all confidential and will be extremely helpful for anyone, whether you are having financial difficulties or just want a little bit of advice.  

You can receive assistance with:

• Personal and family budgeting
• Understanding your credit report and how to improve your score
• Money management
• Debt repayment
• Avoiding bankruptcy, foreclosure and repossession

CALL TOLL-FREE 1-800-550-1961 TODAY!

CheckRight

CheckRight is a web-based checking account educational module designed to help you learn how to manage a checking account. This module is offered to our customers through our partnership with GreenPath Debt Solutions. This is a great tool to learn the ins and outs of checking account management. Whether you are opening an account for the first time or trying to learn how to better manage a checking account, CheckRight will give you the answers you are seeking.

Among other things, CheckRight will help you learn how to:

• open an account
• write checks
• make deposits
• maintain a check register
• reconcile an account
• create a spending plan

CheckRight is a self-study program that allows you to learn at your own pace. Once you have read through the chapters, you will be directed to a quiz that will test your knowledge on checking accounts. You will be able to view the results of the quiz at the end.  Just click the CheckRight Logo to get started!

BudgetSmart

We are excited to offer BudgetSmart to our customers. This is a budgeting software tool and another FREE benefit for our customers as a result of our partnership with GreenPath Debt Solutions. You can use the BudgetSmart program to help you:

• Establish a budget
• Track spending
• View tips for improving areas of overspending and inadequate saving
• Experiment with “What If” scenarios to determine how a major purchase or change in income would impact your budget

Click on the BudgetSmart logo to download the program to your computer free of charge. This is just another way that Lapeer County Bank & Trust Co. is trying to make your financial life easier.