IRS Tasks You Can Now Handle Online Instead of Calling Calling the IRS used to feel almost unavoidable when you needed an old tax record, wanted to confirm a payment, or had questions about money... Saving Advice · Sep 6
60 With Only $2,000 Saved for Retirement: Is It Too Late to Turn Things Around? Turning 60 with only $2,000 saved for retirement can produce an uncomfortable realization: there probably isn’t enough time left for decades of compounding to solve... Saving Advice · Sep 6
8 SNAP Rules Older Americans Should Double-Check Before Their Next Recertification Receiving SNAP today doesn’t necessarily mean your next renewal will be automatic or that your benefit will stay exactly the same. Recertification gives the state... Saving Advice · Sep 6
Signs a Credit Repair Company May Be Making Promises It Can’t Keep A damaged credit score can make everything from financing a car to qualifying for an apartment more difficult, which makes an advertisement promising to “erase... Saving Advice · Sep 5
Will You Get an Extra Hour After Halloween This Year? It Depends on Congress Halloween falls on a Saturday in 2026, and under the law currently on the books, millions of Americans will get a small bonus the following... Saving Advice · Sep 5
Social Security Faces a 2032 Funding Deadline — 6 Proposals That Could Change What Retirees Receive For years, Social Security’s funding problem sounded far enough away that retirees could reasonably wonder whether Congress would ever do anything about it. That luxury... Saving Advice · Sep 5
Wake Up Congested or With a Dry Throat? Your Ceiling Fan Could Be Part of the Problem You go to bed breathing normally, sleep with the ceiling fan running, and wake up wondering why your nose suddenly feels stuffed, and your throat... Saving Advice · Sep 4
9 Signs You’re Not Actually on Your Utility Company’s Payment Website You type your electric company’s name and “pay bill” into a search engine, click the first convincing result, and see a familiar logo on the... Saving Advice · Sep 4
Some Widows and Divorced Spouses Can Now Get More From Social Security — Here’s Who Qualifies Some widows, widowers, and divorced spouses are receiving Social Security benefits they couldn’t have collected (or couldn’t collect in full) under rules that existed just... Saving Advice · Sep 4
Helping an Adult Child Who Lost a Job: The Support Choices That Quietly Wreck Your Own Retirement When your adult child calls to say they’ve lost their job, the instinct to help can be immediate. You may have savings, a paid-off house,... Saving Advice · Sep 3
10 Cities Where Homeowners Are Falling Behind Fastest On Their Mortgage A missed mortgage payment doesn’t immediately mean foreclosure, but it can be the first indication that a household budget has stopped working. Nationally, mortgage performance... Saving Advice · Sep 3
8 Things About Social Security That Don’t Work the Way Most People Think Social Security sounds straightforward: you work, pay taxes, retire, and receive a monthly check. Then you start digging into the rules and discover that working... Saving Advice · Sep 3
FTC and 22 States Sue Amazon, Alleging Secret Ad Scheme Cost Advertisers More Than $20 Billion Amazon is facing a new federal lawsuit alleging the company secretly manipulated the auctions used to determine advertising prices, costing more than 1.2 million brands... Saving Advice · Sep 3
September Social Security Payments Begin This Week: First Checks Hit Wednesday September 9, 2026 The first large wave of September Social Security retirement payments lands Wednesday, September 9, for beneficiaries born on the 1st through the 10th of any... Saving Advice · Sep 3
Saving Advice · Sep 2 5 Signs That FTC Refund Text or Email Is Real — And 4 Signs It’s a Scam An email lands in your inbox saying the Federal Trade Commission has money for you. Your first instinct may be to delete it because everyone...
Saving Advice · Sep 2 Paying a Bill? The FTC Says Don’t Trust the First Payment Site You Find on Google You need to pay the electric bill, so you Google the utility company’s name and “pay bill,” click the first result, enter your information, and...
Saving Advice · Sep 2 7 Household Expenses SNAP Applicants Should Make Sure They Report When you’re applying for SNAP, it’s easy to focus almost entirely on the income questions. But the bills leaving your bank account can matter, too,...
Saving Advice · Sep 1 Promises / Chutzpah / Stock Updates PROMISES Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts Share widely. And if you have time . . . > THE SUPREME BALLROOM Robert Reich: ....
Saving Advice · Sep 1 $3,333 a Month for Retirement? These 12 Small Towns Make the Math More Manageable Could you retire on $40,000 a year? Break that number into a monthly budget, and you’re working with about $3,333 before taxes, Medicare premiums, or...
Saving Advice · Sep 1 Need an Answer From Your Doctor? New Research Shows How to Write a Better Portal Message You’ve probably stared at a patient-portal message box wondering how much information your doctor actually needs. Should you write three sentences or three paragraphs, start...
Saving Advice · Sep 1 What Happens If You Lose A Winning Lottery Ticket? Imagine checking last night’s lottery numbers and realizing the ticket you bought at the gas station is worth $1 million. Then you reach into your...
Saving Advice · Aug 31 Should You Remove the Escrow Amount From Your Monthly Budget After You Pay Off Your Home—or Keep Saving It? Making your final mortgage payment can feel like getting an enormous raise. If you’ve been sending the lender $1,800 every month, seeing that obligation disappear...
Saving Advice · Aug 31 If You Died Tonight, How Long Could Your Family Keep Paying Your Bills? Imagine that you died tonight and tomorrow morning your spouse or adult child had to figure out the mortgage, utilities, insurance, credit cards, property taxes,...
Saving Advice · Aug 31 Your Prescription Costs $8 One Month and $80 the Next. Here Are the Questions to Ask Before You Pay You picked up the same prescription last month for $8, so when the pharmacist says today’s refill costs $80, it’s reasonable to wonder what went...
Saving Advice · Aug 30 Before You Give an Adult Child Access to Your Bank Account, Understand These 5 Alternatives Maybe you’re getting tired of managing bills, worried about what would happen during a hospitalization, or simply want an adult child to help keep an...