by lifecents | Feb 6, 2016 | Pocket
My wife and I were watching a news program the other day when a commercial for a prescription medicine piqued my interest. The drug was designed to treat an ailment that, as it turns out, comes from taking another prescription medicine made to treat something else....
by lifecents | Feb 2, 2016 | Pocket
Have you gotten your W-2? If not, feel free to bug your boss, because Feb. 1 is the deadline for all employers to provide their employees with the all-important form. Lisa Greene-Lewis, CPA and tax expert at TurboTax, has some tips for those people left hanging as tax...
by lifecents | Jan 25, 2016 | Pocket
Americans are stuffing their checking accounts with more cash than ever before, and that may not be a good thing. The average checking account balance was $5,459 in the first quarter of 2015 — more than double the norm prior to 2008 — according to the economic...
by lifecents | Jan 21, 2016 | Pocket
You may think your family is too well-off to qualify for financial aid, but if you have a child who’s in college or going soon, it’s still worth completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA , this winter. Read...
by lifecents | Jan 14, 2016 | Pocket
They might be better educated and more technologically savvy than previous generations, but that doesn’t mean millennials are making smart financial decisions. Read...