Personal finance

In this article MORN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Edwin Tan | E+ | Getty Images Breakups are always hard. The relationship with your financial advisor is no different. But there are some telltale signs it’s probably time to call it quits, experts say. “When it comes down to it, it’s a business relationship,”

Sergey Mironov | Moment | Getty Images If you had a surprise tax bill this season or your refund was smaller than expected, it may be a good time to review your paycheck withholdings. The IRS collects taxes throughout the year, typically through paycheck withholdings for W-2 employees or quarterly estimated tax payments for self-employed

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sdi Productions | E+ | Getty Images As a pandemic-era policy winds down, millions of people on Medicaid may lose their coverage — even though they remain eligible, advocates say. For the last three years, due to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, states have been

Getty Images The federal tax deadline for most Americans is April 18, and there’s still time to file for an extension. But the clock is ticking.   As of April 7, the IRS received more than 101 million returns, but the agency expects to receive in excess of 168 million through the end of the

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A person walks out of the Apple Store in Annapolis, Maryland, on February 2, 2023. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images As the Federal Reserve continues to hike interest rates, some online banks have been jockeying to offer the highest yields on savings. Now,

More women are becoming breadwinners, but the division of labor at home has barely budged, a new report found. Although men still out-earn women in most households, the share of women who earn as much as or significantly more than their husband has roughly tripled over the last half-century, according to a new Pew Research Center

Fertnig | E+ | Getty Images Negative headlines about Social Security’s future may be affecting how prepared people feel when it comes to their own retirement. Almost three-quarters, 74%, of people say they cannot count on Social Security benefits when it comes to the money they will have in retirement, according to a new survey

Collectively, Americans owe more on credit cards than ever before. And they’re paying a higher price for it, as well. The average annual interest rate for credit cards is now near 21%, according to data from the Federal Reserve — marking the highest rate since the Fed began tracking this figure nearly three decades ago.

Sdi Productions | E+ | Getty Images After a federal judge in Texas struck down a key provision of the Affordable Care Act last month, some health insurance plans may soon scale back their preventive care coverage, experts say. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled in late March that one of the three panels of

Miniseries | E+ | Getty Images Egg prices fell by almost 11% in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday, following a 7% decline in February and delivering relief from record-high prices over the winter. The decrease is largely due to a recovery in egg production and weaker consumer demand, said Brian Moscogiuri,

Many people may have heard about the various so-called attachment styles psychologists and sociologists say we display in our closest relationships, such as “anxious attachment” or “avoidant attachment.” It turns out we also tend to follow certain patterns when it comes to our relationship with money, said Brad Klontz, a Boulder, Colorado-based psychologist and certified

Liubomyr Vorona | Istock | Getty Images The Biden administration’s sweeping plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for tens of millions of Americans may have an unintended, though hopefully temporary, consequence for some people, experts say. “For many borrowers, it will cause their credit scores to drop,” said higher education expert Mark