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How To Make Your Mobile and Online Payments Safer

There are a wide range of online and mobile payments services that operate both nationally and internationally. Some services are created by fintech (financial technology) companies, or individual banks, while others are independent service providers that may be supported by networks of banks. While the services differ in the features they offer—some may allow you to easily split a restaurant dinner payment between a group of friends, make purchases, or connect to a debit card (among other options)—they all offer a quick and easy way to move our money around. All mobile payment apps are not created equal, and you should understand the differences between them.

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Your Smartphone SIM Card Could Be a Target

Crooks (also known as fraudsters, scammers, and hackers) keep coming up with inventive methods for stealing your personal information—and then your money. And now that we manage many of the activities in our lives on smartphones, including accessing our financial accounts, our mobile phones are increasingly becoming the preferred electronic target for fraudsters who want to harm us.

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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.

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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.

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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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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 a CD Can Boost Your Savings

Do you have any CDs to go along with your savings and checking accounts? If not, then you should consider finding out more about them. For financial institutions, CDs are about Certificates of Deposit, and they are a pretty easy way of letting your money grow more than it might in a checking or savings account.
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