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Byline: Tara Siegel Bernard Pay-advance apps have been downloaded millions of times, and more employers are offering them as benefits to workers who need cash. Americans have become accustomed to [...]

Byline: Tara Siegel Bernard Banks have tightened standards, becoming more choosy about their borrowers and asking a lot of questions. As public school teachers, Tori Smith and her husband have [...]

Banks have tightened standards, becoming more choosy about their borrowers and asking a lot of questions. As public school teachers, Tori Smith and her husband have careers that should survive [...]

Republicans want wage replacement instead of an extra $600 per week in unemployment benefits, but technical and political hurdles are in the way. WASHINGTON -- Republicans want to replace a [...]

A new standard established by the Securities and Exchange Commission may sound better than it actually is, consumer advocates say. The next time you shop around for financial advice, more [...]

Hundreds of millions of dollars went to bogus applications, triggering long reviews for others as scammers hide in a torrent of benefit requests. When Alexandria Preston had to leave her [...]

Economic equality is crucial to racial equality. But at nearly every stage of their lives, black Americans have less than whites. We cannot quantify the injustice of a white policeman [...]

Borrowers with privately held mortgages don't have the same options as those with government-backed loans. Some are being told they can skip payments, if they make them up all at [...]

Rules and store technology can impede Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients, but a pilot effort to expand access is picking up speed. Whether they need more yeast for stress baking [...]

Tax credits for sick leave, expanded unemployment insurance, tax changes and more. The self-employed often fall into the biggest gaps in the social safety net. But relief programs aimed at [...]

The Senate relief bill would send money to Americans and greatly expand unemployment coverage. The Senate unanimously passed a $2 trillion economic rescue plan on Wednesday that will offer assistance [...]

If your income has fallen or been cut off completely, we're here to help. This guide will connect you to the basic information you'll need to get through this, including [...]

States are trying to beef up skeleton crews to handle a flood of jobless claims while expanding workers' access to benefits. The best place to get a job right now [...]

The coronavirus outbreak is closing down some businesses, leaving workers unsure how they can support themselves during the crisis. This is how unemployment works. As the coronavirus outbreak grinds American [...]

If your income has fallen or been cut off completely, we're here to help. This guide will connect you to the basic information you'll need to get through this, including [...]

Shortly after the stock market began its initial descent, Rob Phelan, a high school math teacher in Maryland, received an email sales pitch: ''The Coronavirus may be Fatal -- to [...]

The coronavirus is officially a pandemic. The bull market is officially over. None of us knows what comes next. It's hard to make rational financial decisions when there's so much [...]

Americans in their mid-60s could live nearly three more decades, research shows, so a healthy dose of stock in your portfolio is actually prudent now. If you're on the cusp [...]

As anxiety about coronavirus gave way to fear, investors dumped shares, watched the news and fielded client calls. ''I have no energy left to speak.'' The past two weeks were [...]

Filing your tax return may make your head hurt again this year. For only the second time, Americans must cope with the new set of rules that sprang from the [...]

Daniel Ellern lost his main job in accounting nearly two years ago. He already had a side job driving for Uber, but he ultimately found more lucrative work assembling Ikea [...]

Robinhood remained down part of Tuesday as the markets bounced around, leaving customers angry and nursing big losses. SAN FRANCISCO -- Robinhood has become a Silicon Valley darling by presenting [...]

Businesses are grappling with how to deal with a potential outbreak. Here's what they're doing, and how it could affect their workers. Furloughs. Sick leave. Working from home. You could [...]

Narrowing down all the options and figuring out where to turn can be paralyzing. We've got you covered. Investing doesn't have to be that complicated. But when you're just starting [...]

FICO is tweaking its all-important formula. Scores will rise for about 40 million people and drop for another 40 million. Your credit score -- that all-important passport within the financial [...]

CATEGORY Settlement Period ClosesOver Equifax Breach Roughly two years ago, nearly half the American population had their personal information compromised by hackers in Equifax's massive database. The company ultimately reached [...]

Regulators are considering easing regular people's access to the private market where promising start-ups get their funding. Many investors may have fantasized about those ''if only'' investments. If only I [...]

A series of changes tucked into the $1.4 trillion spending deal passed Thursday could affect savers including retirees and recent graduates. The government spending legislation that passed in the Senate [...]

If you didn't change the tax withholding in your paycheck, you still have time to avoid another unpleasant surprise -- or even a fine. The first tax season under the [...]

Byline: Tara Siegel Bernard A price war has driven the cost of some stock trades to zero. But brokerages have to make money somehow, and here are some of the [...]

A price war has driven the cost of some stock trades to zero. But brokerages have to make money somehow, and here are some of the ways. Investing is cheaper [...]

Byline: Tara Siegel Bernard and Matt Phillips The merger would create a brokerage giant with roughly $5 trillion in assets as the industry copes with zero commissions on stock trades. [...]

The merger would create a brokerage giant with roughly $5 trillion in assets as the industry copes with zero commissions on stock trades. More than 40 years ago, Charles Schwab [...]

The form opens the door to student aid. But it's ''a terrible measure of what people can actually afford,'' one expert said. And many families will be asked to pay [...]

Byline: Stacy Cowley and Tara Siegel Bernard Attempts to create tech-focused alternatives to traditional banking have struggled to be more than a niche product. Google already has a valuable stash [...]

Attempts to create tech-focused alternatives to traditional banking have struggled to be more than a niche product. Google already has a valuable stash of your digital data. Now it wants [...]

Income-driven repayment programs cover eight million borrowers, but they could be helping more if they were simpler and reached the people who needed them. With more than 7.5 million student [...]

Examine the typical American family's monthly budget, line by line, and a larger story emerges about how the middle class has evolved. What it means to be middle class hasn't [...]

Charles Schwab is eliminating fees for trades of stocks and exchange-traded funds. The move is part of a trend that has made it cheaper than ever to invest. Charles Schwab [...]

Karen Herzog, a retired high school teacher, bought a long-term care insurance policy 12 years ago because she didn't want to burden her only daughter if someday she could no [...]

Hoping to fight a growing plague of robocalls, a dozen phone companies including the country's biggest mobile and broadband providers agreed on Thursday to adopt new call-blocking technology and other [...]

Sunshine Anderson was at Mills College's annual welcoming ceremony in 2017 when the liberal arts college revealed its big news: It was slashing its tuition by more than a third. [...]

When South Carolina passed a law last year to provide pregnant workers and new mothers with more protections in the workplace, it was driven by an unlikely alliance: supporters of [...]

When you go to the doctor, there's an expectation that she will act in your best interest. You don't expect to be prescribed costly pills because the office is getting [...]

Regulators have new rules for Wall Street brokers providing investment advice: Act in your customers' best interest. But consumer advocates argue that the rules amount to little more than a [...]

Americans may soon see some welcome changes to the rules governing their retirement savings plans, including the ability to contribute to their Individual Retirement Accounts longer or tap them to [...]

Byline: Tara Siegel Bernard Anthony Marino set his mobile phone to 'Do Not Disturb' before going to bed, but he sensed it flicker in the dark. The next morning, he [...]

Anthony Marino set his mobile phone to ''Do Not Disturb'' before going to bed, but he sensed it flicker in the dark. The next morning, he saw he had missed [...]

Conor Barnes, an accountant in New York, decided to stop telling her clients to ''have a nice day'' at the end of their meetings. Often she delivered news that had, [...]