Delta Air Lines is offering an innovative, new emergency-savings benefit up to $1000 per eligible workers. This is thanks to changes in Secure 2.0 legislation. It’s a win-win for companies and their workers.
Category Archives: Savings
College: Upromise, earn $30.29 easily for college
We learned how Upromise can help us save more money for our 529 plans through their rewards network.
Education: San Francisco’s college savings program for kindergartners grows up
We discuss San Francisco’s first in the nation program to automatically start a college savings account for every kindergartener, and the success of that program in encouraging high school students to attend college.
Finance: What helps you most with FAFSA?
In today’s piece, we’ll cover the combination of income and assets that best helps you with FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). Those can include parents income, parents assets, students income, and students assets.
Finance: A good loan interest calculator
We found a good total loan interest calculator that is easy to use. We walk through our own personal example of how much we save from extra payments on our student loans.
Retire: Don’t retire says 101 yo practicing doc
A 101 year old, practicing doctor shares tips on how he keeps his brain sharp. That has big implications for traditional views of retirement.
Best credit union 1 year CD rates
Credit unions are offering great interest rates over one year time periods. Credit unions are a great alternative to for profit banks.
Sofi raises savings to 4.2%
SoFi raises its savings rate to 4.2% and reports fantastic results. The stock promptly tanked.
Savings: Apple unleashes a great savings account – 4.15%
Apple has introduced a new savings account, offering 4.15% to start.
Money streams and money lakes
We introduce the concept of money streams, emergency savings lakes, debt lakes, and the stock / flow analysis on how much to keep in your emergency savings lake, and how much to spend on your debt lake.