Skip to main content

Blog

credit, investment, savings, security

What to Do If Your Personal Email Account Is Hacked

It can be enormously harmful if your email is hacked, potentially exposing personal information of many kinds, including sensitive financial, legal, and medical activity. It could also open your personal and business contacts to phishing or other types of online or mobile attacks. You need to act quickly to try to regain control of your account.

budget, investment, retirement, savings

Transitioning to Retirement Now

This year's COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has disrupted millions of lives as Americans have either lost their jobs permanently or been furloughed with less work and lower wages. This disruption forced former employees to carefully consider their long-term employment options and start making what may be difficult decisions as to how they can move forward with their careers or transition to early retirement.

budget, credit, savings, vacation

There Is Such a Thing as an Affordable Vacation—an Update

Dealing with a pandemic and the many severe personal and commercial economic problems it has caused means that many of us are not able to even think about a vacation this year, let alone take one. But people are still going on vacations in 2020, and if you're in a position to consider taking time off and, maybe, going on a trip, then it's well worth giving a thought to how to save money on a vacation, something that our blog began to cover a few years ago.

budget, credit, savings

Managing Your Credit Score During the Pandemic

According to a June 2020 story in The Wall Street Journal, “Americans have skipped payments on more than 100 million student loans, auto loans and other forms of debt since the coronavirus hit the U.S., the latest sign of the toll the pandemic is taking on people's finances.” This is to be expected with millions of people unemployed and totally or partially furloughed. Without an ongoing income or other means to pay bills, there may be few options for consumers other than to not make their regular debt payments.

budget, credit, investment, savings

Now That You’ve Been Furloughed What Should You Do?

With reduced hours (or no hours at all), regular income has either diminished or stopped for furloughed workers. That may mean some tough decisions and actions for these sidelined workers. We'd like to present some options to consider and decisions to make that could assist you if you're furloughed.

budget, credit, investment, savings

Making Tough Financial Choices in a Tough Economy

For those unemployed, financial hardship is a reality they are facing now or will soon face as their income has stopped or gotten smaller. Even the government’s Economic Impact Payments may provide only limited fiscal relief for Americans whose personal debt may be increasing while their funds are decreasing. With less money, it’s essential to be very careful with spending it, and to think about what you could do now to trim expenses.

credit, insurance, savings, security

Creating a More Cyber Secure Home Network

While corporate computers being used at home may have a variety of security systems installed, such as a computer antivirus/antimalware suite and Virtual Private Network (VPN) that are always on or turn on automatically when needed, security at home begins with securing your network to provide more protection from possible attack from malware, scammers, and phishing. A key step in security improvement is managing the hardware that delivers your internet service.

credit, savings, security, taxes

Watch Out for Coronavirus and Economic Impact Payment Fraudsters

Unfortunately, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic provides an exploitable opportunity for fraudsters to prey on people who are afraid, uninformed, misinformed, and even desperate due to how the pandemic has disrupted lives, companies and our country. Fraudsters may go after bank and checking accounts, credit cards and your identity, and they will use sophisticated software and highly trained and scripted telephone and email agents—who sound very official and legitimate—to trick us into giving them what they want.

budget, credit, investment, savings

Working from Home? Here Are 15 Financial Tasks You Can Do Now

From the privacy of your home, you can invest time in personal financial matters that you might not be able to focus on at a workplace. Every year you should take a look at your income, expenses, and budget and adjust them.

budget, credit, investment, savings

Important Financial Education for Select Employee Groups During the Pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic impacts all of us now—and may affect the world for months—improving your financial knowledge could be essential in helping sustain your financial well-being.  Key information may assist you in overcoming any setbacks that you may encounter during this unique and challenging time.
Displaying results 41-50 (of 259)
 |<  <  1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10  >  >| 

Browse by Topics

all categories budget community credit education features holiday insurance investment real estate retirement savings scholarship security taxes vacation vehicles wedding
Blog postsBlog RSS Feed
Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Subscribe to us on YouTube Follow us on Instagram