The following are common economically abusive behaviors:

• Preventing you from having or keeping a job
• Interfering with your efforts to maintain a job by sabotaging childcare, transportation, or other arrangements
• Harassing you at work
• Refusing to work
• Not including you in family financial decisions
• Not allowing you access to the family finances
• Making you ask for money
• Taking your money
• Demanding an account of everything you buy
• Controlling your access to financial information
• Not allowing you to talk to others about money
• Not allowing your name to be on accounts, which would allow you to build credit
• Forcing you to put your name on accounts and then destroying your credit
• Making fun of your financial contribution and saying it is not worth anything
• Expecting you to behave in a certain way because you make less money or are not the “breadwinner”
• Destroying or interfering with homework
• Preventing you from learning English
• Forcing you to work “illegally” when you do not have a work permit
• Threatening to report you to INS or IRS if you work “under the table”
• Taking the money your family back home was depending on you to send to them
• Forcing you to sign papers in English that you do not understand i.e. court papers, IRS forms, immigration papers
• Harassing you at the only job you can work at legally in the U.S., so that you lose that job and are forced to work “illegally”