Talk about a shock. You go to pick up a prescription and you’re told you owe $120! “Wait a minute,” you say to the pharmacist. “I’m on Medicare. I have prescription drug coverage.” “Yes, but it doesn’t cover the entire cost of this medicine,” the pharmacist says. “The $120 is your part.” So, you write a check [...]
You’d think retirees would get some consideration from the IRS. I mean, they’ve worked their entire adult life, paid their taxes (well, most of them), and paid them no matter what administration was in office or what stupid rules an administration put on the books. Now they’re retired. But it doesn’t mean they’re exempt from IRS audits. Reasons retirees [...]
Sam sat at the table holding his chin in his hand. “My kids are going to inherit my estate. Do I give it to them now or let them inherit it after I’m gone?” That’s an estate planning question that’s been pondered ad infinitum. There is no black-and-white answer. Your decision will be based on your particular circumstance. But [...]
Debt has become an American way of life. We owe a lot of money. The Federal Reserve of New York says that at the end of 2025, we collectively owed $18.8 trillion. Break that down and one of the largest classes of consumer debt in the U.S. is student loan debt. 43 million Americans have student debt Total student debt [...]
Social Security is an important part of almost every retirement plan, whether you’ve saved enough or not. That’s why it’s important to know as much about your Social Security situation as possible. And you don’t want to wait until you’re about to retire to gather the facts. Social Security planning needs to start 5 years before your target retirement date. [...]
It’s an age-old dilemma—I love making money in the market but I hate paying taxes on the gains. What’s an investor to do? One answer is tax loss harvesting which allows you to sell losers in your portfolio and use the losses to offset capital gains. It’s effective. It works. But remember, when you’re talking about reducing the amount of [...]
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