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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Getting Smart About College Costs
Just about every parent thinks about the day when his or her child leaves home with a blend of pride and sadness. Today’s parents with college-bound children probably add a measure of financial anxiety into the emotional mix. Not only … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Planning, Guest Bloggers
Tagged Bill Gross, college, college costs, education, education expenses, investment
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How to Earn Income From Home
My wife made a comment the other day about how much food our household is going through lately. As some of you may know, we have four children, including three boys, the oldest of which is turning 12 in April. … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Planning, Rebel
Tagged income, independent consultant, Mary Kaye, Pampered Chef, substitute teacher, survey taker
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Making Your Benefits Communications Oscar-Worthy
The Oscar awards were on TV this past Sunday but since there were no actors I was rooting for, my husband decided we were going to rent a movie so he picked Tower Heist, which after watching it I can … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, H.R. Guru
Tagged benefit communication, COBRA, ERISA, oscars, PBGC, tower heist
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7 Ways to Reduce the Single Biggest Expense for Retirees
Housing costs and related household expenses make up the single largest spending category for Americans over fifty, a recent study by Employee Benefit Research Institute reports. This has many pre-retirees concerned because for most retirees’, their income declines or is … Continue reading
Posted in Money Diva, Retirement Planning
Tagged downsizing, home repairs, housing, mortgage, retirement, retirement home, retiring abroad
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Is Inertia Costing You Money?
Let’s face it. We human beings are generally creatures of habit. We tend to do the same things over and over even if we aren’t always thrilled with the result, something Albert Einstein called the definition of insanity.
Posted in Financial Wellness, The Maverick
Tagged habits, hsa, inertia, investing, spending, taxes
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Rental Property in an IRA?
The second week of April is Spring Break for our kids so this year we planned a family vacation to Amelia Island, Florida. We’ve never been there before so after perusing several possible forms of accommodations, we settled on a … Continue reading
Educating Older Workers on the ABCs of RMDs
With the yearly chore of tax filing upon us, all those year-end retirement account statements can become quite confusing for your group of employees who have chosen to remain in the workforce into their seventies. Which accounts can they still … Continue reading
Posted in Employee Benefits, H.R. Guru
Tagged charitable donations, IRAs, retirement planning, retirement plans, RMDs, Roth IRAs
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5 Easy-to-Miss Tax Filing Mistakes
Whoops! In preparing for this blog, I realized that I made one of the easy-to-miss tax filing mistakes I was going to alert you to! I moved last year and was supposed to inform the IRS by filing form 8822. … Continue reading
Posted in Money Diva, Money Saving Ideas
Tagged Form 8822, payroll taxes, tax preparation, tax preparation mistakes, tax software, taxes
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