Getty Getty Faced with increased scrutiny from the Department of Labor about lackluster efforts to find missing retirement plan participants, employers are asking for permission to send uncashed pension checks—money that belongs to former workers–to state unclaimed property funds. “It’s unbelievable, but everybody has that story of a beneficiary who is sitting on a check
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By Dean Hedeker, Next Avenue Contributor For people nearing retirement or in retirement, every dollar counts and planning ahead is paramount. That’s especially true for taxes. Now that 2018 tax returns are behind us, this is an opportune time to look for 2019 tax savings strategies for retirement. Here are two ways to do it: Use
Getty Chances are that you filed your federal income tax return electronically this year: the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) estimates that nearly nine in ten individual taxpayers e-filed their tax returns in 2019. That was just one of the findings reported by the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC) in its 2019 Annual Report to
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Lower incomes Getty photocredit: Getty Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders and Billionaire Ray Dalio are on the same page. They both say that the stark reality that American workers have not had a wage increase for years is a crises and fault line of capitalism. The great American wage repression
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