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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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2019 Tax Deadline Extension, IRA/HSA Contributions, and Paying Taxes

This March the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service announced that the federal income tax filing due date is automatically extended from April 15, 2020, to July 15, 2020; this date change also automatically extends the ability to contribute to Individual Retirement Accounts/Health Savings Accounts for the 2019 tax year to July 15.

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How the Fed Cut Affects Current Consumer and Mortgage Loan Rates

Recently, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank's (the Fed) Federal Open Market Committee announced it would cut interest rates to a historic low, with the basic—or benchmark”—U.S. interest rate now in a range of 0 to 0.25 percent. That's an incredibly low rate, and in response, there are a lot of very eager homeowners (or would-be new homeowners) intensely interested in refinancing their current loan or trying to get a new home loan right now.

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Help Us Help You—Confirm Your Current Contact Information Today

Have you moved your legal residence recently, either long-term or just temporarily? Or are you planning to move and getting everything ready for when you’re fully installed in your new home? If you’ve moved or will be moving, please let us know now! Updating your information annually is the best way to have your accounts in good shape. We really need to have all your current contact information for several important reasons.

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New Year’s Financial Resolutions You Can Really Keep

For many people, one thing the new year always brings is new year's resolutions—promises to ourselves and others that will take actions to alter—and usually improve—some (or many) aspects of our life. It's common for people to want to change their weight and exercise program, modify a personal relationship, do something different with their job or career, travel more, begin (or invest more time in) a hobby or sport. Even though the new year has begun, it's not too late to make or revise resolutions for the rest of the year.
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