{"id":34365,"date":"2022-09-13T09:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/go-isso\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=34365"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:11:24","slug":"lets-connect-session-personal-finances","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/go-isso\/event\/lets-connect-session-personal-finances\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Connect Session: Personal Finances"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>Personal finance is as a major topic of interest for International Students and their accompanying family members in Canada. In collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalstudentconnect.org\/\">International Student Connect<\/a> and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cciottawa.ca\/\">CCI Ottawa<\/a>, the ISSO is offering an information session that will provide general information regarding personal finances and money including personal budgeting, saving, credit and credit history, employment, tax advantages, investments, social security, insurances, debt and more. The session will discuss the following aspects of personal finances and money matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Defining personal finance: what does personal finance include?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Credit and credit history in Canada. Why is good credit important?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Who can see your credit report? Who has the right to check your credit history?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do you do if you find yourself in financial trouble?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Budgeting tips<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Money Management Quiz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Presented by Mussie Habte,&nbsp;Settlement Counsellor, ISC Project Facilitator with the&nbsp;Catholic Centre for Immigrants (CCI)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-34365","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2022-09-20T13:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2022-09-20T14:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"LA","cu_event_meeting_room":"C164","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/go-isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/34365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/go-isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/go-isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/go-isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/go-isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/34365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34412,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/go-isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/34365\/revisions\/34412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/go-isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/go-isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=34365"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/go-isso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=34365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}