Financial Fellow

   Written by J.P. Wicklein
     The following summarizes each of the Financial Fellow articles for November 2008 in two sentences or less.
1)   How to Avoid a Big Tax Refund:  If you wish to increase your take home pay throughout the year, while decreasing your annual tax refund, you can do so by increasing the number of [...]

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   Written by J.P. Wicklein

     Barring any changes the social security trust fund is expected to run out of money around the year 2041.  My generation (the border of Gen X and Gen Y) has been told to assume that we can’t count on receiving a social security check during our retirement years. This is a good thing in that it provokes people to save for retirement with their own funds. That said, I think that social security checks will be paid out for decades after 2041.

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