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IDENTIFYING FINANCIAL ABUSE 

does your partner...

  • Steal money from you or your family?
  • Force you to give access to your money or financial accounts?
  • Make you feel as though you don’t have a right to know any details about money? About household decisions?
  • Make financial or investment decisions that affect you or your family without consulting or reaching agreement with you?
  • Refuse to include you in important meetings with banks, financial planners or retirement specialists?
  • Forbid you to work? Or to attend school or training sessions?
  • Overuse your credit cards? Refuse to pay the bills?​
  • Force you to file false tax claims or other legal/financial documents?​
  • Prevent you from obtaining or using credit cards or bankcards?
  • ​Withhold physical resources from you? These could include food, clothes, medications or shelter.
  • Force you to work in a family business for little or no pay?
  • Refuse to work to help support the family?
  • Interfere with your performance at work? This could include frequent telephone calls, emails or visits to your workplace.
  • Force you to turn over your benefit or public assistance payments? Threaten to falsely report you for “cheating” on your benefits so they will be cut off?
  • Force you to cash in, sell or sign over any financial assets or inheritance you own? This could include bonds, stock or property.

​Screening questions for financial abuse and warning signs are from the Allstate Moving Ahead Through Financial Management curriculum.