Category - Debt

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Paying Off Credit Card Debt is Great…Until it Isn’t
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Financial Power of Attorney: Are You Responsible for Covering Debt?
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The Pandemic Has Changed the Rules for Retirement
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Which Comes First: Student Loans or Retirement?
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Financial planning for college: should you bother saving?

Paying Off Credit Card Debt is Great…Until it Isn’t

In “The mistake I made while paying off $15,000 in credit card debt — and how to avoid it,” one consumer outlines how what he thought would be a triumphant moment, turned out to be less so because of what he didn’t know about the was credit works. The writer explains that in 2021, he […]

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Financial Power of Attorney: Are You Responsible for Covering Debt?

A Live Chat with The Washington Post’s Color of Money columnist Michelle Singletary posed an interesting question about handling a parent’s debt. The person who wrote in to the chat has financial power of attorney and has had to move that parent into an assisted living facility. The parent had $3,000 in credit card debt […]

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The Pandemic Has Changed the Rules for Retirement

Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary offered new rules for retirement savings in “Forget what you’ve heard. Here are the new rules for post-pandemic retirement,” and  we are going to discuss two of them that relate to retirement planning. “Old rule: Make retirement savings your No. 1 priority. New rule: Make paying off debt, especially high-interest debt, a […]

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Which Comes First: Student Loans or Retirement?

People go back and forth debating whether or not to save for retirement or pay down debt. Both are financial priorities and while it is possible to put some money towards both, some people want to know whether or not to concentrate on one or the other. In “Here’s why you should make paying off […]

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Financial planning for college: should you bother saving?

Nobody wants to pay for something, then watch someone less deserving who gets it for free. A dear friend recently raised this situation: are you a sucker for saving, while somebody else spends freely and their kid gets more money from a college? I’ll give a very qualified yes to this—there are a few situations […]

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