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...
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...