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Ask Jane: What happened to my Social Security tax cut?
Two years ago, the government cut the Social Security tax by 2 percentage points. It gave the average taxpayer around $1,000 more to spend, which helped the economy recover. You still get the tax cut on the returns you’re filing now, for 2012. Employees owe 4.2 percent of their wages up to ...
Free breakfast at Chick-fil-A (select locations) and lots of beauty items
There are some great freebies this week! If you live in D.C., VA, NC or CA you can grab a free breakfast. If you don't, there are tons of beauty freebies this time around! Gillette is giving away several different free full size products during the next 7 days, 5,000 ...
Q&A: What are the basic steps to building a budget?
With the increase in social security taxes taking a bite out of everyone’s paycheck, most of us are reducing expenses and reworking our personal budgets. It’s tempting to begin scrimping on the necessities, but you must continue to allot enough money for the most important items in your budget – housing, ...
Q&A: Should kids get credit cards for emergencies?
It depends on your child’s maturity level, but I do think it’s a good idea for an at least fairly responsible high schooler to have a credit card for emergencies. One of our biggest responsibilities as parents is to teach our children good money habits, and working with them on an ...
Freebie Corner: Free pizza at Sbarro & 1 yr. subscription to Ladies Home Journal
My favorite offer this week is the window cord retro safety kit. Just about everyone has blinds or shades of some kind in their home. This kit will help make the cords safer if children are near them and some of the available kits fix up to 4 windows. If ...
Freebie Corner: Birthday freebies, including a free Sprinkles cupcake
It's a new year and a great time for everyone to sign up for their birthday freebies! All you have to do is sign up for the offers that you like below. Sometime during your birthday month you'll receive an email with instructions on how to claim your freebie, you ...
Daily Money Shot: What to do with the extra money from your raise
Typical personal finance advice tells you that when you get a raise, you should not factor that money into your budget. You should use it for savings or funding your retirement or debt repayment. You should not adjust your standard of living just because you have more money coming in. It’s good advice. After all, ...
Three health care reforms coming this year
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Health care reform won’t kick in fully until 2014. That’s when health care exchanges will roll out and employers will have to decide whether they want to continue offering health care insurance to employees or pay a fine and make them enter an exchange on their own. But ...
Is overdraft protection a good idea?
With car insurance, life insurance, identity theft protection and travel insurance, there are as many ways to protect your finances as there are to mess them up. When it comes to banking, consumers can sign up for overdraft protection to insure against overdrawing an account. But for responsible money managers, is it ...
Ask Jane: Should I tell a new date my credit score?
You might have to, if you want to see the guy or girl again. Credit scores not only affect the size of the interest rate you have to pay on credit cards and loans. They’re also becoming one of the keys to romance. Even on first dates, that doll who’s gazing deeply ...
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