Tillamook County Women's Resource Center

Abusers often use financial power and control tactics over victims. Victims who are financially dependent on abusers have fewer resources for escape. Financial abuse includes:

• Making all financial decisions for the household
• Keeping financial secrets
• Monitoring the victim's spending
• Controlling the victim's access to cash
• Controlling the victim's access to checkbook or credit cards
• Refusing to let the victim work
• Forcing the victim to turn over income to the abuser