credit union industry financial services founded 1963 headquarters biddeford maine united states key people luke labbe president products savings ; checking ; consumer loans ; mortgages ; credit cards total assets 135m usd website peopleschoicecreditunion.com peopleschoice credit union is a state chartered credit union headquartered in biddeford maine and regulated under the authority of the national credit union administration ncua . peopleschoice has 135 million in assets approximately 13 500 members and 5 branches . 1 history edit st. joseph s credit union was founded in 1963 by a group of parishioners from st. joseph s church in biddeford maine . the offices for the credit union were initially located in the church s basement . in 1974 the offices were moved to a building behind the church . st. joseph s operated there until 1984 when it purchased a building in biddeford for its first branch office . the credit union merged with the st. ignatius federal credit union of sanford maine in 1987 . the credit union s membership was restricted to parishioners of the st. ignatius and st. joseph s churches and some select employee groups until august 2000 when they were granted a county charter from the state of maine . the charter expanded the credit union s field of membership to anyone who works lives or attends school in york county maine . come 2001 sprague sanford federal credit union was merged with st. joseph s. a year later the credit union opened an office in wells maine . on february 1 2006 st. joseph s changed its name to peopleschoice credit union . 2 the credit union apologized in 2007 after printing an anti semitic ad in the portland press herald . 3 in 2008 peopleschoice initiated a series of financial education workshops for the general public covering topics such as budgeting loans and mortgages . 4 references edit peopleschoice credit union . credit union access . worth noting . credit union journal . 9 january 2006 . bank apologizes for anti semitic ad . upi newstrack . 17 february 2007 . peopleschoice financial series . seacoast . 25 september 2008 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title peopleschoice credit union & oldid 733948248 categories credit unions based in mainebanks established in 1963biddeford maine navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 august 2016 at 04 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view