AF and Better Business Bureaus Partner

By: fedweek

Representatives from the Air Force and the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) signed a memorandum of understanding July 16 at the Pentagon that will assist airmen and their families with consumer-related issues. "At a time when these military personnel and their families needed to focus their energies on doing their jobs . . . they were more and more being courted by unethical businesses, surrounded by predatory lenders, pressured to buy unneeded insurance products and at high risk for identity theft during deployment," said Steven Cole, CBBB’s chief executive officer. Accordingly the CBBB entered into partnerships with the Department of Defense Financial Readiness Campaign, and with the Army and Navy and now the Air Force. For more information, contact the local Airman & Family Readiness Center or visit the BBB Air Force line at www.airforce.bbb.org.