savingadvice.comadded August 2026
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship7d ago
The call often begins with a frightened voice saying something no grandparent wants to hear: “Grandma, I’m in jail.” Within minutes, another person may come on the line claiming to be a lawyer...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship7d ago
Imagine someone was married for 15 years, divorced, remarried, stayed married another 15 years, and divorced again.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship7d ago
Finding a Medicare plan that works well can feel like winning a small bureaucratic lottery: your doctors accept it, your prescriptions are covered, and the bills haven’t delivered any ugly...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship8d ago
If you have health insurance through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace, there’s a new reason to spend a few minutes checking your account before the 2027 enrollment season begins.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship8d ago
An unopened IRS letter rarely gets cheaper with age. Some IRS penalties and interest increase month after month; others become substantially larger after certain deadlines, and interest can...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship8d ago
Your parents may insist they’ve lived in their house for 30 years without a problem, but familiarity can make small safety hazards remarkably easy to stop noticing.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship8d ago
Finding an old prescription bottle in the medicine cabinet can raise a surprisingly complicated question: if the pills are still there, is it okay to take one?
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship9d ago
Mention aging in place home modifications, and it’s easy to picture a contractor tearing out the bathroom, widening every doorway, and handing you a bill approaching the price of a new car.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship9d ago
Medicare Open Enrollment arrives every fall with advertisements, mailers, phone calls, and warnings that can make it seem as though every beneficiary has to choose a new plan before December 7.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship9d ago
Most homeowners aren’t suddenly missing their mortgage payments, but beneath the relatively calm national numbers, financial stress is becoming much easier to spot in certain parts of the country.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship9d ago
Seeing “$0 monthly premium” beside a Medicare Advantage plan can make it look like you’ve found health insurance that won’t take another bite out of your retirement income.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby James Hendrickson9d ago
An official-looking Medicare card unexpectedly arrives in your mailbox, but there’s something different about it: it’s plastic, perhaps has a chip, and comes with instructions telling you to call a...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship9d ago
Twenty dollars doesn’t sound like a frightening medical bill. But put five $20 medical appointments on the calendar every month, and you’ve quietly created a $1,200 annual expense.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Amanda Blankenship9d ago
Open an older adult’s medicine cabinet, and you may find prescriptions accumulated over years, over-the-counter sleep or allergy products, pain relievers, and medications prescribed by several...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship9d ago
You like your doctor, they know your medical history, and you’ve spent years building a relationship with the practice.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Amanda Blankenship10d ago
Leaving a backpack on the passenger seat while you run into a store may feel harmless, particularly if there’s nothing valuable inside it.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship10d ago
For nearly a month, someone in Illinois possessed a piece of paper worth more than $1 billion on paper, and the public had no idea who had it.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Riley Jones10d ago
A trip to the emergency room can become an all-day ordeal, and older Americans have plenty of opportunities to experience it.
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Max Erkiletian10d ago
In three days, a change mandated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) will take effect, bringing additional cost and administrative burden to state and local governments and putting more...
SavingAdvice.com Blogby Drew Blankenship10d ago
Cancer prevention advice can quickly become confusing, especially when headlines seem to label a different food dangerous every week.
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