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Economic/Financial Abuse
Examples of economic/financial abuse include:
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Forbidding the victim to work or attend school.
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Sabotaging employment opportunities by giving the victim a black eye or another visible injury prior to an important meeting.
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Jeopardizing employment by stalking or harassing the victim at the workplace.
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Denying access to a vehicle or damaging the vehicle so that the victim cannot get to work.
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Sabotaging educational opportunities by destroying class assignments.
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Withholding money or giving an allowance.
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Denying access to bank accounts.
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Hiding family assets.
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Running up debt in the victim’s name.
Source: The Hotline, https://www.thehotline.org/

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