Financial Abuse

Financial abuse Includes controlling or restricting money to buy necessities such as medicine, medical supplies, food and clothing. It also includes withholding information about household financial matters, denying access to bank accounts and coercion to sign financial documents. Financial abuse can also include denying the right to seek and/or maintain employment, taking personal money, denying independent access to money, and/or excluding the woman from financial decision-making.

FINANCIAL ABUSE CHECKLIST:

• Makes you account for all the money spent
• Keeps you short of money
• Makes you ask for basic necessities
• Undermines your attempts to improve your education
• Undermines your attempts to get or keep a job
• Controls the money
• Makes you ask for money
• Refuses to give you money
• Makes all major decisions about money without consulting you
• Spends money only on things he wants