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SavingAdvice.com Blogby James Hendrickson3 Sept 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 month.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship2 Sept 2026
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 knows unexpected refund messages are classic scam bait...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship2 Sept 2026
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 move on.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship2 Sept 2026
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, because certain allowable expenses are used as...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Andrew Tobias1 Sept 2026
PROMISES Share widely. And if you have time . . . > THE SUPREME BALLROOM . . . [Five Supreme Court Justices] said the preservationists who challenged the construction of the planned ballroom lacked...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship1 Sept 2026
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 other deductions, and suddenly the question...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship1 Sept 2026
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 with “Dear Dr.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship1 Sept 2026
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 wallet… and the ticket isn’t there.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship31 Aug 2026
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 may immediately have you imagining...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship31 Aug 2026
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, and funeral expenses.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship31 Aug 2026
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 wrong.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Tom Corley31 Aug 2026
In my five-year Rich Habits Study I discovered four ways the self-made millionaires in my study accumulated their wealth: - Saver-Investor Path - Big Company Climber Path - Virtuoso Path -...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship30 Aug 2026
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 eye on your finances.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship30 Aug 2026
Divorce may divide the house, bank accounts, retirement savings, and debts, but there’s one piece of paperwork that’s surprisingly easy to forget: the beneficiary form you completed years earlier.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship30 Aug 2026
You bought your house decades ago, watched its value rise, paid down the mortgage, and now a real estate website says you’re sitting on $300,000 in equity.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship29 Aug 2026
You open the latest property tax notice and immediately wonder how your house could possibly have gotten that much more expensive while you were simply living in it.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship29 Aug 2026
Prescription costs can quietly consume hundreds of dollars from a retiree’s monthly budget, but some Medicare beneficiaries may qualify for assistance they’re not using.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship29 Aug 2026
Your adult child sits down and asks for $20,000. Maybe for a home down payment, a business problem, a divorce, a medical bill, or debt they can’t seem to escape.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship28 Aug 2026
In plenty of marriages, one spouse naturally becomes the household’s financial manager. That arrangement can work perfectly well for decades… That is until illness, cognitive decline...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship28 Aug 2026
Medicare Open Enrollment doesn’t begin until October 15, but waiting until then to figure out what you need can turn a straightforward insurance review into a frustrating scavenger hunt.
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