Current Newsletter - New Castle County School Employees Federal
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Current Newsletter - New Castle County School Employees Federal
Home Membership Accounts Loans Services Video Board of Direct ors President Dave Taylor Free and Low Cost Vacation Ideas DearMember, Welcome to the Summer issue of Class Notes! Does summer vacation make you nervous because you instantly think about all the associated costs? Luckily, not every vacation has to be a drain on your wallet. Check out our video that appears above for some great tips, then check out our Summer Loan Special that could help you pay for that vacation! If you're looking to save money this summer, try skipping fast food and drive-thru options. No matter what your saving and spending goals are right now, tracking your expenses is key to any budget plan. Our featured app this month is Monefy, a handy way to keep a handle on your expenses. Enjoy the beautiful days of summer! Vice President Nancy M. Smith Treasurer Larry Gocella Secretary Bob Evancho Directors Ann T. Boniface Virginia Dennis Syd Goldberg CEO Terri L. Keene HOU RS Main Office SUMMER HOURS Monday - Friday (begins Monday, June 20th) 8:30am to 4pm CLOSED Saturday (begins June 18th) CLOSED Sunday WINTER HOURS Monday - Friday (begins Monday, August 15th) 9am to 4:30pm Saturday (begins Saturday, September 10th) 9am to 12noon CLOSED Sunday Member Appreciation Day An n ou n ced Chrisitiana HS Branch (When school is in session) Monday,Wednesday, & Friday 10 am to 1 pm LOANS Super Low Interest VISA Credit Card Our VISA Credit Card will easily beat the competition! Not only are our interest rates super low but we don't charge any balance transfer fees or cash advance fee! Make the switch today. You won't regret it! Rates as low as 7.99%*!! Signature Loan Qu arterl y Ch arity Even t 'Breakfas t For Di nner' at the Ro nald McDo nald Ho us e o f Delaware It's called a signature loan because we don't ask for any collateral-- just your signed promise to repay the loan. Borrow up to $20,000 for whatever your needs might be. Rates as low as 8.99%* Auto Loans Are you in need of a new mode of transportation? NCCSEFCU can help you afford the vehicle you've been dreaming of with our low rate auto loans! The New Castle County School Employees Federal Credit Union staff had another great time preparing dinner for the Ronald McDonald House of Delaware on May 31st! This was our second time preparing dinner, which has been turned into a quarterly event. Not only has it been wonderful to give back to families of children in our community but it has been an outstanding team building experience and a way for the staff to spend time together outside of work. Currently financed through someone else? Let us see if we can get you a better rate. Rates as low as 1.75%* Ban kin g At You r F in gertips NCCSEFCU Mobi le Banki ng App Manage your accounts on the go through our FREE mobile app. Available on both Apple and Android phones. READ MORE & DOWNLOAD HERE *Rates are determined by term and individual credit worthiness. GOT AN APP F OR THAT? Monefy: The App Fo r No- Fri lls Expens e Tracki ng One of the wonderful truths about self-improvement is that the things we focus on tend to get better before we really even begin changing anything. If you decide to start eating better and document your food choices, you'll make better general decisions when it comes to food selection. If you want to cut back on coffee, start by counting each cup. If you plan to reduce your spending, the act of writing down your purchases will actually encourage you to spend less. With apps like Mint or Level Money, getting those initial benefits requires a long and perhaps complicated setup process. You need to give the app access to all of your financial accounts, navigate dozens of menus and track down all your monthly bills. Only then will your technology keep track of your spending for you. In instances like that, the first step to monitoring your personal finances is so cumbersome, it becomes a barrier to just beginning the task. And that is unfortunate, because when starting a new challenge, nothing helps build momentum like a few quick wins. That's where Monefy comes in. Monefy is a new app recently released for iPhone and Android. Rather than automatically syncing with your accounts, it lets you tell it how much money you have available to spend. That's it for setup. Once you've done that, you're ready to start tracking your spending. Rather than trying to communicate with a dozen different financial institutions, Monefy keeps track of your transactions in a secure cloud storage system called Dropbox. Dropbox is noted for its industry-leading encryption technology, and none of your account information is stored there. In addition to the ease of setup, Monefy is pretty easy to run. Inside the app, you can create a new expenditure, add notes about it and categorize it. You can see your remaining budget, edit old transactions and see a breakdown of your current spending. You can save and export your monthly transactions to any spreadsheet program for long-term tracking, and you can even switch between currencies, which is the closest the app comes to having any "bells and whistles." Because the app works on Dropbox, you can share the same budget across multiple devices, which helps families keep track of expenses together. Widgets also enable lock screen access for quick recording. Monefy comes with fairly general categories like food and housing. While they can be edited, it's somewhat of a cumbersome process in the free version of the app. The free version also shows ads, although they're minimally intrusive. Features like recurring monthly expenses are also excluded in the free version. Most negative experiences that have been reported thus far seem to be centered on stability issues. The developers are still working on an update system that works seamlessly across platforms, so frequent data backup is a must. A few people seem to have problems with the user interface, too, but it seemed to work well enough when we gave it our test drives. If you're looking for a no-frills digital version of a checkbook register, Monefy will let you see how you're spending your money. It won't save money by itself, or automatically deposit your savings in a brokerage account, but it will help keep you aware of your spending. And sometimes, that's really all you need. Cu rren t Loan R ates Visit our site | Forward to a friend | Subscribe You received this newsletter because you signed up to receive our communications at our website. We sent to the registered email address on file, which is