How to create an effective emergency fund?

[Matt B]

How to create an effective emergency fund?

[Matt B]

First of all, what is emergency fund? It is a specific sum of money, which individuals can use to cover expenses in the emergency situations. It could be everything connected with your health as well as numerous cases of being involved in the credits or loans. Moreover, the emergency fund is needed when you are facing a regular problem with payment of bills and need to make everything done with it as well.

Any advice on that?

[Garnino]

Financial experts and analytics suggest creating such emergency fund for everyone and having a particular plan how to do it.

[Matt B]

Do you have any suggestions on a plan? What does it look like?

[adamjonesvv]

You should create a regular particular habit of saving money to your emergency fund. For instance, it could be around 10 – 15% of your monthly income every month. This consistent action will help you to avoid the problems when you cannot afford some medicine because of the health concerns or any other cases.

[Garnino]

Many questions are rising from the audience. One of the most significant is about the particular amount of the emergency fund. How big the contingency fund should be? If course, the sum of money can totally depend on you but in most of the cases you can quickly create a fund of urgency for the next 6 – 12 months.

[adamjonesvv]

An emergency fund is needed when you have been laid off your current working place. Usually, an average time when people are finding the new job differs from 2 to 4 months. During this period, you should live and spend money as well as make payments for your regular bills as well as purchase products.

[Matt B]

Try to maintain a particular automation of the things. When you are saving money every month, you can control everything, which is essential to keep your emergency fund as well as manage your overall personal financial planning.

If you are comfortable with using modern technologies and mobile applications for the money savings, you should try them to overcome challenges and save time on optimizing your personal financial planning.

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