"Economic abuse happens when a person interferes with their partner’s ability to acquire, use and maintain economic resources. It can include the restriction, exploitation or sabotage of a person’s housing, food, clothing, transportation, employment, and education.
Economic abuse can take many forms including: retaining the victim’s salary or giving [them] an ‘allowance’, forbidding [them] from accessing work or education, restricting access to [their] private and shared bank accounts, and convincing or forcing [them] to take on debt on behalf of the abuser, among many others. Economic abuse is a harmful form of coercive control that seeks to control and isolate victims economically, making it harder to leave the abusive situation and to be financially independent after separation".
