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With advances in healthcare, people are living longer. However, that often means that men and women in their forties and fifties take on the responsibility of caring for their parents. You want to help, of course, even if it means finding an assisted living facility that gives your parents the freedom they crave with the…

With Social Security accounting for an average of 60 percent of retirement income, and an aging population with less people contributing to the pool, the management of Social Security benefits is in desperate need of a makeover.  So what about a national lottery to fund programs such as Social Security? The idea of a national…

With the stress of tax season looming over all of us, people (filers and accountants alike) often miss the useful information that a tax return can illustrate about a filer’s financial situation.   A tax return can provide insight into many areas, such as when it is a good time to pay off a mortgage or…

With the stress of tax season looming over all of us, people (filers and accountants alike) often miss the useful information that a tax return can illustrate about a filer’s financial situation.   A tax return can provide insight into many areas, such as when it is a good time to pay off a mortgage or…

For Americans planning on retiring in the next few years, changes to claiming options made through The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which goes into effect May 1, 2016, may make retirement no longer feasible.  With false pretenses to save the government money, the changes put into play by the budget act will cost retirees between $20,000…