The Windfall Elimination Provision primarily affects you if you earned a pension in any job where you did not pay Social Security taxes and you also worked in
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Americans now owe an average of $27,253 in student loans as the delinquency rate has increased by more than 47 percent since 2005. Some 27 million borrowers, or
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For 2012,the DJIA closed at 13,104, up 7.3%, the Nasdaq at 3,019, up 15.9% and the S&P 500 at 1,426, up 13.4%. Financials were the strongest industry sector
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Unforeseeable emergencies within a Section 457 deferred compensation plan are very strictly defined by Internal Revenue Code provisions. Deferred compensation
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A record number of American households carry student loan debt, while the average outstanding loan balance is the highest it's ever been, according to the Pew
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spousal benefits without also being forced by Social Security to claim their own retirement benefits. That is, you are "free" to take a spousal benefit while
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Gold has been an effective hedge against inflation over the very, very long term. But that’s about all it’s good for, according to an interesting and
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If all the money that’s ever been invested in hedge funds had been put in Treasury bills instead, the results would have been twice as good. So claims Simon
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For 2011, the DJIA closed at 12,218, up +5.5%. The Nasdaq closed at 2,605, down -1.8%. The S&P 500 finished exactly where it began the year, closing at 1,258
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Section 845(a) of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 added Internal Revenue Code Section 402(1), effective as of January 1, 2007. Section 402(1) provides an
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For 2010, the DJIA was up 11.0% (closing at 11,578), the S&P 500 was up 12.8% (closing at 1,258) and the Nasdaq was up 16.9% (closing at 2,653). We endured a
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Companies that promise to reduce or eliminate credit card balances and other debt for customers will no longer be allowed to charge an upfront fee. Debt
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