personal finance
Finance Friday Articles
- 10 Reasons You’re Not Stupid for Paying Off Your Debt
- 10 Things You Want to Know About Medical Malpractice
- Don’t Bet Against Biology
- Global Diversification is Still Working
- Investing: That Thing Rich People Do
- Navigating 2025: Some key insights from the past year
- Tax Considerations for Special Needs Families
- TSP Investment Limits, Other Key Dollar Figures Changing
- What’s a Safe Retirement Spending Rate for 2025?
- When a Crystal Ball Isn’t Enough to Make You Rich
- Why Do Some Doctors Get Declined for Disability Insurance?
- Why Your Credit Score Is Not Your Adult GPA
- Worth Repeating
Finance Friday Articles
- Doubling Your TSP (C Fund vs G Fund)
- Investing in Stocks at All-Time Highs
- Sharing Lessons
- The 3 Best Inflation Hedges
- The Simple Life
- The Sky is (always) Falling: Why This is Not the Time to Change Your Investment Strategy
- Time to Check
- Troops to get an average housing allowance boost of over 5% in 2025
- Why Amortization Based Withdrawal (ABW) Works Better Than Safe Withdrawal Rates (SWR)
Finance Friday Articles
- 2024 Bogleheads Conference Videos
- Finding Contentedness
- How To Avoid Investment Fruit Loops
- My Favorite Investment Writing of 2024
- My Rule for Avoiding Lifestyle Creep: Don’t Live Beyond Your Assets
- Pennies and the Backdoor Roth IRA
- Pick Your Peril
- The 4 Types of Investment Mistakes
- We’re too obsessed with cash
- Why I Don’t Invest in Real Estate
Finance Friday Articles
- Analysis shows troops financially stronger in 2023 than pre-pandemic
- Bet on Low Costs
- Doctors Need to Budget, Too (With a Few Examples)
- End of Year Financial Checklist for 2024
- Thank You for Your Kids’ Service: Resources for a Military Family
- The Myth of the Tax Write-Off
- Top 10 Ways to Lower Your Taxes and Lower Your Tax Bracket
Finance Friday Articles
- 7 Things Wealthy People Don’t Have to Worry About (and 7 They Do)
- 20 Lessons From 20 Years of Managing Money
- Discounts for Doctors and Healthcare Workers in 2024
- Is It Too Late to Buy Bitcoin?
- Retirees, a Rich Life Does Not Require Spending More Money
- Stuck at Home (reasons to invest in foreign stocks)
- TSP to Offer In-Plan Roth Conversions in 2026
- Understanding the 3 Types of Income — Adjusted Gross, Modified Adjusted Gross, and Taxable Income
- You Only Have to Get Rich Once
Finance Friday Articles
- 8 Things You Must Know About Social Security
- 30% Up Years in the Stock Market
- How Tax Brackets Work for 2025
- How to Get Discounts on Your Physician Disability Insurance
- Is the United States Going Broke?
- Leaving Service? Here’s What You Can Do With Your Options for Your TSP Account
- Rules for Asset Allocation Implementation
- Should You Ever Put More Than 20% Down on a Home?
- The Big Holes in Your Financial Plan
- The Miracle of U.S. Equities
- Time Isn’t An Asset Class
- When Interest Rates Matter and When They Don’t
ENROLL NOW! Open Season is here for FSAFEDS, TRICARE and FEDVIP
Federal Benefits Open Season is here! From November 11 to December 9, 2024 for FSAFEDS and FEDVIP and through December 10, 2024 for TRICARE, you can select options for your benefits for 2025. This is your annual opportunity to review your benefits options and make choices to meet you and your family’s unique needs. Eligibility varies by program and details are available at the below links.
FSAFEDS:
NEW FOR SERVICE MEMBERS! Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account – Contribute up to $5,000 per household tax-free to pay for eligible dependent care expenses such as preschool, summer day camp, before or after school programs, and child or adult daycare.
– Learn more and enroll here: https://www.fsafeds.gov/enroll.
TRICARE:
TRICARE Health Plan – Beneficiaries eligible for TRICARE Prime and Select have three options during open season. Stay in your plan, no action required; enroll in a plan if not previously enrolled; or change plans. Actions during open season are effective on January 1, 2025.
– Enroll or Change Plan Here: https://tricare.mil/Plans/Enroll.
FEDVIP:
Vision Care – Active-duty family members are eligible for enrollment in a FEDVIP vision insurance plan.
– Enroll or Change Plan Here: https://www.benefeds.com/eligibility.
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Finance Friday Articles
- 2026 Military Pay Raise: A Key Indicator Points to a Smaller-Than-Expected Boost
- Advice for the Kids
- Election Market Overreactions
- Solo 401(k) Tax Credits Explained: Don’t Let Your CPA Cost You $1,500
- Some Things I Don’t Believe About Investing
- TSP Considerations Before and After Separation
- We Need to Talk About Your Retirement ‘Spending
- What Should I Do With My I Bonds?
- When Is It Too Late to Contribute to a 529?
- You Can Dial Back Real Estate Risk