Health savings accounts (HSAs) are tax-preferred savings accounts set up in conjunction with high-deductible health insurance policies that are used to fund qualified medical expenses.
Understanding Health Savings Accounts
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Long-Term Care Insurance: Understand Your Options Before You Buy
High-deductible health plans (HDHPs) cover a wide range of medical and prescription costs, but only after a steep annual deductible has been paid. HDHPs generally appeal more to healthier people with no chronic ailments that require regular care.
Is a High-Deductible Plan Right for You?
High-deductible health plans (HDHPs) cover a wide range of medical and prescription costs, but only after a steep annual deductible has been paid. HDHPs generally appeal more to healthier people with no chronic ailments that require regular care.
Choosing a Health Insurance Plan
It’s not easy to pick the right health insurance plan. Doing so takes time and research because the stakes are simply too high to just pick the cheapest option and hope for the best.
Understanding Medicare: Parts A, B, C, and D
Medicare contains four components: Parts A, B, C, and D. Part A is hospital insurance designed to cover inpatient care in hospitals and rehabilitation facilities.
Social Security and You: What Does the Future Hold?
If you’re counting on Social Security to provide you with a secure retirement, think again. Social Security benefits only account for less than half of today’s retirees’ income. Longer life expectancies and the aging of the population will put an increasing burden on the Social Security system, making your own retirement funding more important than ever.
What You Need to Know about Your Will
A will provides the peace of mind that comes from planning to pass on the fruits of your life’s labor to your loved ones. Without a will, the probate court will decide how your assets are to be distributed and, if minor children are involved, with whom they will live.
Protect Your Assets With a Trust
A trust is a legal entity that is central to a three-part agreement in which an individual — the trust’s “grantor” — transfers the legal title to an asset to that trust for the purpose of benefiting one or more beneficiaries. The trust is managed by one or more trustees. Trusts may be revocable or irrevocable and are sometimes included as part of a will.
Creating a Plan for Effective Wealth Transfer
Have you implemented estate planning strategies to help pass along more of your wealth to your heirs? If not, this article will motivate you to do so.
Advance Directives: Planning Ahead for Your Own Care
Although the thought may not be pleasant, you may someday face a sudden health crisis that leaves you unable to make your own medical decisions. Fortunately, there is a legal means, known as an advance directive, to address this potential concern.