OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) announced today it is expanding the pilot program of the award-winning Investor Education in Your Workplace (IEiYW) program, making it available to up to 600 state-chartered bank and credit union employees, military personnel, AmeriCorps leadership members, and financial education teachers throughout the state.
The 10-week-long IEiYW program runs from May to August of this year. Participation will be on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, contact Lyn Peters at 360-902-8731.
IEiYW is an award-winning online financial and investment education program for employers to help educate their employees about long-term savings and investment options such as 401(k), 403(b) or related retirement plans.
Due to the success of this program, Washington’s DFI requested and was awarded a grant from the nonprofit Investor Protection Trust (www.investorprotection.org) to make the IEiYW® program (valued at $100 per student) available to 600 leadership staff from other entities throughout Washington.
The IEiYW program already has been fielded tested nationwide by more than 15,500 employees working at nearly 400 companies.