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10 Ways to Save Money When You Make the Minimum Wage

If you make minimum wage, you know just getting by is difficult, and trying to save feels next to impossible. Here are some options to help you save.

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10 Ways to Save Money When You Make the Minimum Wage

10 Ways to Save Money When You Make the Minimum Wage

If you make minimum wage, you know just getting by is difficult, and trying to save feels next to impossible. Here are some options to help you save.

Maryalene LaPonsie

5 Things You Should Never Put on a Credit Card

5 Things You Should Never Put on a Credit Card

Of all the things that be financed with a credit card, here are the 5 worst.

Jason Steele

Form 982: The Way to Battle a 1099-C

Form 982: The Way to Battle a 1099-C

If you have received one or more of the estimated five and a half million 1099-C forms sent to taxpayers this year, then you may find yourself wrangling with Form 982.

Gerri Detweiler

Reader Asks: Can the IRS Seize My Inheritance?

Reader Asks: Can the IRS Seize My Inheritance?

A reader has had a tax lien filed on her by the IRS, but in 2 months is scheduled to receive an inheritance. Can the IRS seize those funds to collect unpaid taxes?

Gerri Detweiler

Cancelled Student Loan Debt Creates Tax Nightmare

Cancelled Student Loan Debt Creates Tax Nightmare

When Kim Thompson's $91,000 student loan balance was cancelled due total disability, she traded it for another kind of debt... to the IRS.

Gerri Detweiler

1099-C Wrong? Taxpayer May Pay With An Audit

1099-C Wrong? Taxpayer May Pay With An Audit

1099-C Wrong? Taxpayer May Pay With An Audit

Gerri Detweiler

1099-C: The Worst Tax Mess of the Year?

1099-C: The Worst Tax Mess of the Year?

1099-C: The Worst Tax Mess of the Year?

Gerri Detweiler

Current on the Mortgage, but Delinquent on Property Taxes

Current on the Mortgage, but Delinquent on Property Taxes

What happens to a homeowner who is current on the mortgage but is delinquent on property taxes? There are a number of parties who have a stake in your home. What happens when one of them comes after y

Michael Schreiber

1099-A In the Mail? How to Avoid Taxes on Cancelled Debt

1099-A In the Mail? How to Avoid Taxes on Cancelled Debt

1099-A In the Mail? How to Avoid Taxes on Cancelled Debt

Gerri Detweiler

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