Economic/Financial Abuse

Examples of economic/financial abuse include:

Forbidding the victim to work or attend school.
Sabotaging employment opportunities by giving the victim a black eye or another visible injury prior to an important meeting.
Jeopardizing employment by stalking or harassing the victim at the workplace.
Denying access to a vehicle or damaging the vehicle so that the victim cannot get to work.
Sabotaging educational opportunities by destroying class assignments.
Withholding money or giving an allowance.
Denying access to bank accounts.
Hiding family assets.
Running up debt in the victim’s name.