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For many people, health savings accounts (HSAs) offer a tax-friendly way to pay medical bills. You can deduct your contributions to an HSA (even if you don’t itemize), contributions made by your employer are excluded from gross income, earnings are tax free...
The SECURE Act is one step closer to becoming law, and with it, Americans would see a few tweaks to the way the retirement system works.
As part of the SECURE Act, which the House of Representatives passed last...
Buying a home is a complicated process that involves sharing sensitive information with multiple people. And the latest major data leak highlights the risk consumers take on when they share that information.
Roughly 885 million mortgage-related files stretching back...
Since 2009 the stock market has suffered a three-week losing streak 18 times.
A month later stocks bounce back, according to a CNBC analysis of Kensho, a data tool used by Wall Street banks and hedge funds to uncover...
Income investing is supposed to be like watching a predictable movie that you’ve seen a dozen times before. But lately, it has been full of plot twists. Over the past few years, most income investors settled back with their popcorn for a...
Parents, of course, worry about paying for college. Increasingly, their children share that concern.
Over the last decade, tuition and fees jumped 44% at four-year, private colleges and by 55% at public four-year schools. As a result, student debt...
Have you ever wondered how the FICA tax information on your pay stub impacts your future retirement benefits?
FICA is a payroll tax that funds both Social Security and Medicare, amounting to a 7.65 percent contribution from each paycheck,...
Hacks are hard because shortcuts rarely exist. Prizes take time and effort.
The personal-finance industry — filled with advice that sounds and feels good without moving the needle — needs to recognize this.
These aren’t fun...
One Seattle-area marketing professional told us she has mixed emotions about the word “retirement.” To her, it brings to mind a 70-year-old sitting in a rocking chair. Her retirement will be different.
She plans to “retire” from full-time work...
