Financial Savings Awareness Program

Week of February 23, 2009

The Defense Department has designated Feb. 22 to Mar. 1, 2009 as Military Saves Week. Military Saves is a DOD-wide financial readiness campaign to persuade military service and family members to reduce debt and save money thereby ensuring personal financial readiness and positively impacting the nation's personal/household savings rates. Military Saves week was instituted in 2007 by the Under Secretary of Defense as an annual avenue for leadership to highlight the importance of establishing personal savings goals, decreasing debt, and developing financial fitness habits that lead to improved personal financial stability.