Elder Abuse Awareness – Share Resources & Report Bad Stuff
Elder financial exploitation is one of the most common and devastating forms of elder abuse. It can destroy the financial security of an older …
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Summer Jobs – 4 Common Sense Financial Skills to Build
With every first job, usually a summer job, comes a first paycheck, and that first paycheck is an opportunity for young workers to develop …
Avoiding Student Credit Card Screwups – Parental FinEd 101
Financial horror stories abound among college students who land the first credit card or who jump on their parent’s credit card account. The very …
Zero Interest or No Interest Credit Card Offers – What’s the Deal??
A major U.S. retailer announced it will no longer offer deferred-interest promotions on its store credit card. Instead, it will offer a promotional period …
IRS Private Debt Collectors vs IRS Debt Scammers – The Difference
If you have a two-year old debt with the IRS you might be getting a letter from the IRS about your account being transferred …
Moving Unsecured Card Debt to Secured Home Debt – Nonsensical
Getting rid of all those high-interest credit cards by folding them into a lower interest rate home equity loans may be, well, stupid. There …
Consumers Begin to See the Light: LED Bulbs Save Bigly
New independent consumer research shows a household using at least 20 light bulbs can save $1,000 or more in a decade by using new …
Five Credit Union Credit Cards Kickin Big Issuer Ass
With the exception of major mainstream news media outlets, nine out of ten web sites offering credit card ”advice” also earn bounties on the …
8 Great Knowledge Morsels for New College Grads
Carrying a boatload of knowledge and debt new graduates enter a mixed world with the lowest unemployment rate in 16 years but filled with …
Six Money Traps College Grads Need to Avoid
College graduates start out behind the game of life, financially strapped with an average of about $40K in student loan debt. Considering this debt …
