Make Your Contact List Guide You (Part 1 of 3)

Posted in Board Brief, KTFCU News on Aug 20, 2025

Americans receive a significant amount of spam text messages daily. In February 2025, Robokiller reports indicated that Americans received 19.2 billion spam texts, according to SlickText. This translates to roughly 63 spam texts per person (which is two per day, on average). I’m sure some of you feel you get far more than two a day!

Spam texts can take many forms in that they can be from scammers or blast marketing campaigns (either from a business or consumer perspective). Either way, they are unwanted disruptions.

While email spam remains a significant problem, text spam has become arguabl...

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Posted in KTFCU News, Loan Specials on Jul 22, 2025

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Financial Health-An Important Topic for Us All (Part 3 of 3)

Posted in Board Brief, KTFCU News on Jul 16, 2025

Having debt is not necessarily a problem. Spending within your means is the behavior you want to foster. Saying no to purchases you can’t afford is a hard choice, but with such hard choices brings freedom, financial freedom.

We provided statistics that show half of Americans with credit cards (100 million) use credit cards as a convenience tool. They make purchases every month and pay the full balance off each month when the balance is due. This infers they have a plan to only buy what they can pay for when the bill come due.

Of the 100 million Americans who carry a credit card balance, 25% (o...

July 2025 Newsletter

Posted in KTFCU News, Newsletter on Jul 01, 2025

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Financial Health- An Important Topic for Us All (Part 2 of 3)

Posted in Board Brief, KTFCU News on Jun 18, 2025

At the end of 2024, US credit card debt reached $1,210,000,000,000! That’s $1.21 trillion!

What’s worse, according to Lending Tree, 47% of Americans pay all the interest on credit card debt. JDPower says 49% of Americans pay off their credit cards monthly.

Basically, that means of the nearly 200 million people in the US who own credit cards, half are burdened with paying all the interest on credit card purchases: $130 billion per month. That debt is financed at exorbitantly high interest rates.

Financial planners say the single most important financial decision a person can make is to not have...