Month: September 2023

mapodile / Getty After several interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve, many have braced for stock market volatility in their 401(k) plans. But experts say some plans could face another risk: employer bankruptcy. Generally, your 401(k) is safe from creditors in the case of bankruptcy, based on protection from the Employee Retirement Income Security
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IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel speaks at a Senate Finance Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on April 19, 2023. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel on Thursday ordered the agency to immediately stop processing new claims for a pandemic-era small business tax break to protect filers from a “surge of questionable claims.”
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A few years ago, a neighbor of mine was having a serious problem with the Social Security Administration. The agency inexplicably denied her the retirement benefits she was entitled to — all because of a name change. Something so basic as reverting to her maiden name (after being widowed for a decade) was enough to
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In this article Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT is a leading semiconductor intellectual-property supplier, designing chip technology that is used in high-tech gadgets, including most of the world’s mobile phones. The company then licenses that tech out to the industry’s major players and collects royalties. Roughly five chips in every smartphone are based on
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In this article STLA F GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT UAW President Shawn Fain addresses union members during a Solidarity Sunday rally in Warren, Michigan, Aug. 20, 2023 Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT — The United Auto Workers and Detroit automakers remain far apart ahead of the union “likely” strategically striking the companies
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Sporrer/Rupp | Image Source | Getty Images New government inflation data points to a 3.2% Social Security cost-of-living adjustment in 2024, according to a new estimate from The Senior Citizens League. That would raise the average monthly retirement benefit by about $57.30, according to the nonpartisan senior group. The Senior Citizens League’s calculations are based
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Tipping 20% at a sit-down restaurant is still the standard in the U.S., according to most etiquette experts — diners disagree. After holding steady for years, tipping at full-service restaurants fell to 19.4% in the second quarter of 2023, according to online restaurant platform Toast‘s most recent restaurant trends report, notching the lowest average since the start of the
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Broker-dealers are in an industry overseen by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), but mostly, no one is closely watching them. Making a good profit is their motivator. Sometimes, profit gets all too tempting and those in the position of having control over another’s money take advantage of that power. One wants to believe that
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Some of CEO and entrepreneur Elon Musk‘s most polarizing attributes may have also enabled his success so far, says biographer Walter Isaacson. Musk has become well-known for seemingly impulsive decisions and controversial statements on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. That reckless streak can’t be separated out from Musk’s track record of
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