ĠEMMA’s Financial Capability Drive – Featured on UHM
The latest launch of ĠEMMA’s Financial Capability Programme has been featured on the UHM website. Click here to read the article >
Launch of the Financial Capability Strategy 2022-2025
ĠEMMA invites you to join the launch of the Financial Capability Strategy 2022 – 2025 which will be live-streamed on its Facebook page on Friday, 14th of January, 2022. Following the initial strategy 2017-2021, this strategy will continue building on its past achievement by creating awareness about improving the financial capability of the Maltese citizens…
Understanding Retirement
It’s important to take the time to understand the various aspects and issues of retirement. A deeper understanding of retirement realities and current and future possibilities, taking into account our needs and wants, will enable us to have a better picture and successfully plan the best course of action for a comfortable retirement. Your Life…
ĠEMMA on PRIME TIME
ĠEMMA, the Government initiative within the Ministry for Social Justice and Solidarity, the Family and Children’s Rights and the popular PRIME TIME programme have teamed together to exhibit in a creative style the educational work that ĠEMMA has been implementing on financial capability. These short televised sessions conducted by the renowned Owen Bonnici will be…
Set priorities: Should I save money or pay off debts?
Strictly speaking, you need to do both. However, you must keep in mind the interest rates related to your debts and that you would be better off with just options to choose from for your investment other than trying to save with pending significant cash flow drains. The most common debts are home loan, credit…
What factors should I consider before I invest in a personal pension plan?
Prior to investing your savings into a private retirement pension product or any other savings or investment product, it is important that you think carefully about your unique needs and overall financial situation. This will allow you to determine whether the investment is right for you. The following are matters you should take into account:…
Strategic Partnership with Mental Health Services within the Ministry of Health
ĠEMMA is pleased to announce that it has developed a strategic partnership with Mental Health Services (MHS). The objective of this partnership is to assist, design and implement a financial capability programme for MHS service users – targeting persons with a mental health condition living in the community. The partnership aims towards improving service users’…
ĠEMMA’s 6th Pulse Survey on Household Money Management
In March 2020, ĠEMMA launched a series of six surveys to understand household money management behaviour within the context of COVID-19. The 6th survey in the series was held in March 2021. Click here to download the 6th ĠEMMA Pulse survey on Household Money Management On Thursday 29th ĠEMMA held a Webinar on this survey.…
Securing your Android Device: See our simple 13 steps to boost your security.
Have you followed our Little Black Books on Scam and Fraud series? You can download them, in Maltese or English, from the following link: https://gemma.gov.mt/ebooks/. As you will quickly realise a good number of the scams and frauds discussed in the Little Black Books are the result of hacking of your computer, tablet, and mobile through…
ĠEMMA in April’s Sagħtar Issue: Learning to Count Money
ĠEMMA has once again participated in Sagħtar. In the April issue (https://saghtar.org.mt/edizzjonijiet-godda-tas-saghtar-2020-2021/) ĠEMMA’s article was directed towards showing young kids how money is counted. The article introduces and explains the Euro coins and notes used and shows how coins, notes, and notes and coins are to be counted. You can follow the article with you…