Verizon wants to help improve kids' financial literacy.
Sarah Tew/CNETVerizon has announced a new initiative to help improve kids' financial literacy, helping them save, earn and spend sensibly with a prepaid Visa card and app. Verizon Family Money will include a spending account and savings vault, with parents able to monitor and cap spending, and set up allowance deposits.
The app will track spending, let kids tick off chores for rewards from parents, build savings and give real-time spending alerts to parents.
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Verizon and non-Verizon customers can try out the app and account for free for 30 days, after which it costs $6 per month. The fee includes accounts for up to five children aged between 8 and 17 years old.
"With Family Money, we're showing what's possible when tech and financial services come together," said Todd Oberstein, Verizon executive director of Product Management and Development. "It's the perfect way to help kids learn the ins and outs of managing money."
The Visa prepaid card is issued by Metropolitan Commercial Bank, and Verizon partnered with digital banking platform Galileo to create the app.
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