Military spouses receive financial training

Finra is continuing to reach out to the spouses of military personnel to give them the training to help others deal with financial difficulties. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. said recently that it has awarded 195 military spouses a fellowship to earn the accredited-financial-counselor designation. The hope is to continue to place the accredited spouses as financial counselors at family readiness and support centers, credit-counseling and tax centers, financial-aid offices and local credit unions throughout the United States and overseas, Finra said in a statement. This is the fourth year that Finra's Investor Education Foundation has offered the Military Spouse Fellowship. “Military families face unique challenges due to their mobile lifestyle — the result of frequent moves and deployments — that can disrupt the lives of military families and a spouse's career path,” Joyce Wessel Raezer, chief operating officer of the National Military Family Association, said in the statement. That group, along with the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, administers the program. The program “gives spouses portable job skills that are flexible to the demands of the military lifestyle and can help them build a rewarding career in the financial-counseling field,” she said.