BetterFi’s 2023 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) free income tax sessions are scheduled.

Better BetterFi - With your help, in 2022 we met our "reach" goals and extended over $157,000 in consumer credit, effectively keeping more than $383,000 in our clients' pockets…

BetterFi is excited to announce that Bill Titus will be taking over the duties of Board Chair… BetterFi is a newly certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and a 501(c)(3) non-profit Tennessee Industrial Loan and Thrift (TILT) that primarily focuses on providing affordable installment loans as an alternative to and means of escaping from predatory payday, title, and flex loans.

Author Davide Scigliuzzo and artist Christopher Cannon do a great job covering the record profits that predatory lenders have seen since the pandemic, but especially illustrative is their interactive infographic showing how one Kimberly Richardson saw a predatory lender fleece her of thousands of dollars before she declared bankruptcy…