Get smart with your money
Today’s top story: The high cost of bad credit. Also in the news: 5 tips to finding a cheaper flight, auto-paying bills by credit card, and United States workers are losing out on billions of dollars in pay.
How Costly Is Bad Credit? Many Don’t Know, Survey Shows
Ignorance isn’t bliss.
5 Tips to Find a Cheap Flight
Saving a little extra.
Auto-Paying Bills by Credit Card: Help or Hassle? Yes.
It can be both.
Every year, U.S. workers lose out on billions in pay
Getting what you deserve.
Today’s top story: A guide to who needs life insurance. Also in the news: Budgeting for new parents, planning a summer family vacation, and how to still afford a house while spending all your money on avocado toast.
A Guide to Who Needs Life Insurance
Do you?
Budgeting for New Parents: From Day Care to College
Covering the next 20+ years.
It’s Not Too Late to Plan a Summer Family Vacation
Plenty of time still left.
How to Afford a House When You’re Spending All Your Money on Avocado Toast
You can keep your toast, Millennials.
Some financial disasters are a long time in the making. It typically takes years of unfortunate choices — minimum credit card payments, forgone savings opportunities — to create suffocating debt or a poverty-level retirement.
Other disasters you can trigger almost instantly. The decision itself costs money, or the clock starts ticking toward a consequence you might not have foreseen. In my latest for the Associated Press, three common ways to trash your finances fast, plus how you may be able to undo or limit the damage.
Today’s top story: How credit card bonuses got so big and hard to grab. Also in the news: VA Loan eligibility and requirements for 2017, how to detect scams that could ruin your retirement, and 10 numbers that may make or break your retirement.
How Credit Card Bonuses Got So Big and Hard to Grab
And you thought blackout dates were bad.
VA Loan Eligibility and Requirements for 2017
What you need to know.
How to Detect Scams That Could Ruin Your Retirement
Don’t put your savings at risk.
10 numbers that can make or break your retirement
Focus on the important ones.
Today’s top story: What to do when you get an IRS audit notice. Also in the news: Budgeting for new parents, where to sell your stuff online, and how your credit score is linked to your chance of divorce.
I Got an Audit Notice From the IRS — Now What?
Take a deep breath.
Budgeting for New Parents: From Day Care to College
In it for the long haul.
Where to Sell Your Stuff Online
Getting rid of what you don’t need.
Your Credit Score Is Linked To Your Chance of Divorce
What the two have in common.
Today’s top story: How to keep Mother’s Day spending down. Also in the news: How the rise in student loan rates will affect borrowers, where to sell your stuff online, and will you see a Social Security check in your lifetime.
Mother’s Day Spending Is up, but You Can Keep Costs Down
It’s the thought that counts.
How Rise in Student Loan Rates Will Affect Borrowers
What to expect.
Where to Sell Your Stuff Online
Making some extra cash.
Will You See a Social Security Check in Your Lifetime?
What are the odds?