Category: Money & Personal Finance

Mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in March unveiled a new payment deferral program that allows borrowers facing hardship to defer two months…

The new coronavirus relief bill relaxes rules on 401(k) withdrawals for those affected by the virus. Savers would be able to take a hardship distribution…

The coronavirus relief bill extends the deadline for taxes due to July 15. Taxpayers also have a break on the deadline to contribute to their IRA and…

In late March, the U.S. Congress passed a $2 trillion economic rescue plan, dubbed the CARES Act, to provide relief to Americans impacted by the COVID-19…

Student loan borrowers will get some relief with the new Corona Virus Aid, Relief and Recovery Act (CARES). The bill does not forgive any part of federal…

If you were to withdraw all your money from the market, you would have to pay taxes on the money (unless it is a Roth IRA). Besides being a bad idea in…

Not to be a downer, but if you get a refund come tax time, it means one thing: you had too much money withheld from your paycheck throughout the year and…

Nearly half (46%) of taxpayers don’t know a refund comes for overpaying taxes to the federal government. That is one finding of a survey of taxpayers by…

So the stock market tanked in historic drops in February on news of the coronavirus Covid-19. It also recovered in an historic one-day recovery. Dizzy…

A relatively new financial movement aims at financial independence and early retirement, sometimes extremely early retirement. And that’s the name of the…