financial abuse

The forms of financial abuse that 1.5 million Australian women have been subjected to by their former partners has been exposed. 

Victim-survivors have called on the 97 banks of Australia to step up and tweak their products, to help prevent financial abuse.

After separation, mothers who experienced domestic violence on average suffered a drop in income of 34%, compared with a 20% decrease for mothers who didn’t experience domestic violence.

YWCA Australia is partnering with CommBank to support victim-survivors of financial abuse, one of the most powerful abuse forms.

One of the more pernicious ways women are controlled and abused is through the access to money, writes Yasmin Khan.

The federal government has failed to deliver a promised $3.3 million scheme that would have stopped domestic abuse perpetrators hiding their superannuation during Family Court disputes.

Spousal financial abuse disproportionately affects women and is particularly prevalent in migrant communities, writes Dr Sabrin Farooqui.

Financial abuse is when a person controls your access to money or property without your consent or manipulates your financial decisions.

Banks and financial service providers are failing to adequately recognise the warning signs of financial abuse and family violence experienced by customers.

Domestic violence is deadly. Twenty four Australian women have been killed violently in the first five months of 2018: research by the Counting Dead Women Australia researchers of Destroy The Joint indicates that at least two thirds of those were killed by a former or current partner.