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After-school programs are closed. Day care centers are shut down. Summer camp might not happen. If you're stuck with money you can't use, you'll lose it -- and pay taxes [...]

Tens of millions of people have already received their payments, but if you haven't, these are the things you should check on. It's been weeks since people started getting coronavirus [...]

Educators at schools from Brown to Northern Arizona know the experience is lacking. So why won't they give some money back? If you didn't get what you paid for, and [...]

It's an admissions season unlike any other, with uncertainty for students and their families -- and the colleges that want to get them in the door. It is rarely easy [...]

Allstate and American Family Insurance are pushing savings to customers automatically. Many others have not. We asked. The best kind of financial help is the kind that you don't have [...]

The Treasury reversed guidance that would have required millions of Social Security recipients to file returns, but many other low-income people will have to submit them. In the sweeping economic [...]

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 [...]

Goldman Sachs, a punching bag during the last economic catastrophe, is leading the way as the coronavirus outbreak threatens consumers' livelihoods. Ally Bank, a bailout beneficiary last time, hasn't matched [...]

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 [...]

President Trump said he was waiving interest on federally held student loans because of the coronavirus outbreak. But payments won't change. At the end of a week full of talk [...]

Communicate constantly, document everything -- and definitely don't apply for a new credit card. When mortgage rates fall to record lows, as they have in recent weeks, homeowners who see [...]

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 [...]

The coronavirus is scary. But those willing to enter the housing market have the benefit of low rates -- and the wisdom of those who bought during the last crisis. [...]

The stock market's fall may have you on edge. But if your long-term goals didn't change today, your investments probably shouldn't either. Pauses are good. That forced halt in stock-market [...]

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 [...]

Doing your own taxes really isn't like changing your own oil. Even if you enjoy such tasks, getting either one of them wrong as a do-it-yourselfer can be expensive. But [...]

Not much. That's partly because they're investing for the long term, and partly because they're protecting you from your own worst instincts. The professionals are in charge, and they may [...]

Byline: Ron Lieber When the stock market shudders a few days in a row, it is tempting to do something, and fast. Read this first. Ignore predictions and seek perspective. [...]

When the stock market shudders a few days in a row, it is tempting to do something, and fast. Read this first. Ignore predictions and seek perspective. When the stock [...]

So you want your investment holdings to reflect your values and you're confused by all the so-called E.S.G. funds. Here's how to start. When the Justice Department announced this week [...]

To invest while supporting animal welfare, socially conscious funds may support Chipotle, but not Burger King and its Impossible Whopper. Investing well is hard enough, and introducing your personal values [...]

Students at the University of the South sought more transparency and sustainability. Were they too polite? SEWANEE, Tenn. -- In 2013, the Board of Regents at the University of the [...]

The Thrift Savings Plan for retirement savings mirrors index funds that invest in such stocks. There's a fix. Many people who work for the Office of the Surgeon General have [...]

Your colleagues choose the investments. Be polite. Respect their duty to act in your best interest. Bring friends. And keep trying. If you want to make a big difference in [...]

The article explores why investors should stay calm when the stock market is falling or about to fall. Topics discussed include investors' tendency to sell stocks when the market is falling, the eventual recovery of investments for retirement, and the monitoring of the performance of investment portfolio.

The summer after high school graduation inevitably includes monthslong encounters with various to-do lists. Extra-long-sheet purchases and milk crates for future collegians. A résumé for job seekers. Thank-you notes for [...]

Byline: Audra D. S. Burch, Alan Blinder and Ron Lieber Days after a billionaire pledged to pay the collective student debt of the entire 2019 Morehouse College graduating class, euphoria [...]

Days after a billionaire pledged to pay the collective student debt of the entire 2019 Morehouse College graduating class, euphoria was not the only emotion in the air. On Morehouse's [...]

Eligible residents who live in Washington State will have a new benefit available to them starting in 2025: a $100-per-day allowance for a variety of long-term care services, which will [...]

We organize the money in our wallets in units of currency, dollars and cents, bills and coins. But the money in our heads is a lot harder to arrange, lost [...]

The emails started arriving in my inbox from borrowers in the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in late February. Their states of residence -- Tennessee, California, Michigan -- were [...]

ATLANTA -- A few years ago, Mark Begor checked his credit report, as befits a corporate executive with proper personal finance hygiene. It was filthy. There was a notation about [...]

We've learned a lot this week about some of the advantages that rich people have in the college admissions process. A small number of people in the 1 percent have [...]

When the new Equifax chief executive, Mark Begor, appeared before the House Financial Services Committee last week, he put on a brave face and offered conciliatory words. ''We believe the [...]

Spin your radio dial, download a podcast or sit down at your next corporate gathering and you'll have no trouble finding a self-styled financial guru to tell you what to [...]

Three student loan borrowers scored a major victory against the Department of Education on Friday, when a federal judge laid the groundwork for a reversal of the department's determination that [...]

When nine refund checks landed in his mailbox a few months ago, Jed Shafer figured he was finally done with his student loan. He had spent years struggling to get [...]

Some level of bafflement attends tax-filing season every year. But in 2019, as Americans examine their returns for the first time under the full effect of the sweeping new Republican [...]

SEATTLE -- Personal finance professionals live too often in the realm of tools and tactics, optimization and automation. All too frequently, their advice -- our advice -- is utterly bloodless.Gaby [...]

Did you apply for undergraduate admission this year and write an application essay about money, work, social class or other related topics? If so, we'd like to see it.Since 2013, [...]

So many people have John Bogle stories.For some, it is a chance encounter at a conference and a whispered word of advice. For others, it is a formal meeting. In [...]

Wells Fargo says it wants to make things right with the American public. After years of cheating its customers, the bank has a golden opportunity to make good on its [...]

You can now freeze your child's credit files for free -- and it isn't as difficult as even the most cynical among you might expect it to be.Do you remember [...]

Saving for retirement requires a strange sort of oddsmaking.On one hand, we're somehow supposed to know what returns to expect from investments in our retirement accounts over the next 25 [...]

Annuities can be complicated. This column will not be.After I wrote two weeks ago about getting tossed out of the office of an annuity salesman, there was a surprising clamor [...]

Jed Shafer's wife, Mary, riffled through the mail on Nov. 29, no longer expecting any unwelcome news.For a couple of years, that daily sorting of papers had been fraught: The [...]

It has become a familiar dance: A company reports a data breach, and you dutifully change your passwords, ask for a new credit card and hope your information doesn't end [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The pitch arrived in my aunt's mailbox, just after her 80th birthday and in the wake of a few frightening weeks for retirement investors.''Tired of the stock [...]