People who are diagnosed with cancer have access to more and better treatments than ever. However, those treatments come at a steep cost. So do medications like Gleevac, which is used to treat leukemia. This means that while cancer patients should be focusing all of...
Month: February 2019
Tax filing obligations before and after Chapter 7 bankruptcy
Some people who have filed for bankruptcy believe that they don't have to file income taxes. They often believe that the bankruptcy trustee will handle it. That's a dangerous mistake to make. If you've filed for bankruptcy since you filed last year's tax return, you...
New York Fed: Auto loan delinquencies are at a record high
New data just released by the New York Federal Reserve Bank indicates that over 7 million Americans are at least 90 days past due on their auto loans. That's a record number -- higher even than in the post-recession years of nearly a decade ago. According to the...
Not just federal employees are unprepared to miss a paycheck
During the recent federal government shutdown -- the longest in history -- Americans saw and heard seemingly endless heartbreaking stories of people whose lives were thrown into chaos because they missed one paycheck and then a second. Even though the shutdown ended...