A healthy financial relationship looks a lot like a healthy relationship,” says Ayesha Scott, a researcher at AUT.
Scott researches economic abuse, and economic harm, and is among a group trying to bring about an all-of-society shift in making economic abuse in the home as unacceptable as physical violence.
Part of this is everyone learning what a healthy financial relationship looks like, and rejecting abusive behaviours entirely.
Good Shepherd, which is a social-good lender that helps people get out of problem debt, is working on a toolkit to show people what a healthy financial relationship in a couple looks like.
From 26th May 2023, all electronic banking payments will be processed on the same day, seven days a week, between most New Zealand banks – including public