America Saves Week is here, and Okaloosa Saves will celebrate the event from Feb. 22-27.
The campaign promotes automatic savings, building wealth and reducing debt. You can take the pledge to save by visiting okaloosasaves.org and clicking the "Take the Okaloosa Saves Pledge" button.
The website offers great tips on, among other things:
●Saving for your future
●How to avoid scams
●Building for retirement
The Okaloosa Saves organization will be at the Building Industry Association of Okaloosa & Walton Counties' Feb. 27 Home Show to provide more information, sign up savers, and help you enter to win prizes.
In addition, we are sponsoring the Youth and the Corporate Piggy Bank Challenge (vote for your favorite piggy bank) and financial seminars on identity theft, understanding Social Security and building credit, and information on Volunteer Income Tax Assistance tax preparation.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Shred It will be at the Home Show with their truck, ready to shred your personal documents.
Visit us at the 2016 BIA Home Show, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27 at the Emerald Coast Convention Center.
Contact me at 689-5850 or jbreslawski@ufl.edu for more information.
Jill Breslawski is an agent at the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension office in Crestview.
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: BRESLAWSKI: Okaloosa Saves to make Home Show visit