A health savings account can be a helpful tool for shouldering the burden of healthcare costs, along with providing additional financial benefits.
When you invest in self-improvement, you're choosing to make key plans and life changes that benefit you today and in the future. Our blog posts often seek to answer direct investment questions like
Why should you pay for a retirement planner? or
How do I begin investing? However, this post will focus on a different kind of investment, where you not only invest your dollars, but also your time and energy for a multifaceted payoff that goes beyond simply improving your financial well-being.
For this post, we’ve come up with a few simple lessons for children of all ages that parents can teach, as well as specific action steps you can take as a parent to set them up on the path to financial success. While we’ve arranged them by grade level, feel free to shuffle them around or borrow ideas from other age groups if you feel you missed an important step or your child is ready for a more-advanced goal.
If you’ve recently opened a checking or savings account, you may be wondering how to keep track of everything. How do you check to make sure transactions are correctly documented in your checking account? How do you monitor for fraud or keep track of spending and saving? Where can you see the interest you’ve accrued in your savings account? For answers, this is where the bank statement comes in.
If you’re purchasing a home for the first time, you may not be aware of other costs associated with buying a home in addition to monthly mortgage payments. One of those costs is private mortgage insurance, commonly referred to as PMI. For many homebuyers who have not been able to save for a big down payment, PMI can help them to still purchase a home instead of having to pay rent. Let’s look at homebuyers’ commonly asked questions about private mortgage insurance, what its purpose is, and when and how you can stop paying it.
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