Free national program equipping over 400,000 students with financial literacy skills [Video]

A free national program that aims to equip young Australians with financial literacy skills has hit a landmark milestone.

Nearly 400,000 students have learnt essential financial habits via by not-for-profit company, Ecstra.

Students at Blacktown Boys High School in Sydney’s west spoke to 9News after completing in-class “talk money” lessons.

Ayaan said before undertaking the program his understanding about money was “pretty elementary”.

“I had a general idea of how income works and how tax works but it wasn’t very in-depth,” he said.

Student Parin said he studied economics and knew “all the fancy definitions”.

“But I didn’t really know what they meant,” he said.