Community Perspective
FAIRBANKS — Many of us here in Alaska know a service member or veteran. They face unique challenges and threats in the financial marketplace. Active-duty members of the military are often young, relocate frequently, and are often deployed overseas, making them vulnerable to financial mistreatment. Service members are also concentrated on military bases, which makes them easy and profitable targets for predatory financial companies.
Veterans may be targeted by predatory financial actors for their guaranteed income, because of loopholes in federal law, or based on physical or mental disabilities suffered while in service.That’s why Congress, when it established […]
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