ATLANTA, GA. July 7, 2006 — As an organization that helps shape the financial lives of consumers, Consumer Credit Counseling Service is always looking for new ways to reach consumers with critical financial lessons. Beginning this Sunday, CCCS counselor and financial education specialist Richard Clements can be seen helping consumers as he counsels clients for “Big Spender,” a NorthSouth production for the A&E Television Network.

Clements will help participants examine their current troubled financial situations and implement strategies to improve their changes for financial success. “In a process very similar to a counseling session, we interview the client, gathering budget, debt, income and spending information,” said Clements. CCCS then develops a plan of counseling advice which is incorporated into the show’s script.

“We also work with each client in an on-air session, reinforcing the recommendations of the action plan,” said Clements, who works in the Palm Beach County, FL office of CCCS. “After taping, we continue to track each client, providing support and monitoring their progress.”

The first episode of “Big Spender” is scheduled to air at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 9 on A&E. In this episode, “Anna and Frank are shopping away their dreams. Regularly spending more than double what they earn every month and one month behind on their mortgage, the couple has decided to forgo another mortgage payment to take their family on vacation. With the finances chipping away at their marriage and their dream home they just purchased in jeopardy of foreclosure, Anna and Frank are in desperate need of an intervention. Larry Winget hosts.” (from A&E)

About CCCS

Since 1964, families have turned to Consumer Credit Counseling Service (CCCS) of Greater Atlanta for help with money problems. CCCS of Greater Atlanta is the headquarters for the CredAbility Network, a family of agencies serving consumers in south Florida, north Georgia, middle Mississippi and east Tennessee as well as nationally via telephone and Internet.

CCCS is a nonprofit, community service agency dedicated to empowering consumers to achieve economic freedom. A United Way partner, CCCS provides confidential budget counseling, money management education, debt management programs, comprehensive housing counseling and bankruptcy counseling and education. CCCS is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services and is a member of the Better Business Bureau and the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC).

CredAbility is the national name for CCCS Atlanta, CCCS Palm Beach County & the Treasure Coast of Florida, CCCS East Tennessee and CCCS Jackson, MS. Service is available in English, Spanish and American Sign Language. CCCS offers around the-clock help by phone at 1-800-251-CCCS or at www.cccsinc.org or www.cccsenenspanol.org.