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Baby costs, childcare, teaching kids and teens about money, single parenting, and caring for aging parents. Plan for the costs of family at every stage.
Say you’re 62 and $30,000 would wipe out your daughter’s student loans. Left invested at a 5% average annual return, with withdrawals starting now, that $30,000 could pay you about $200 a month for 20 years, by our math. On…
Skip it, and the fraud tends to surface when your child first needs credit. Take a family whose son is turned down for his first credit card at 18 because his report shows a utility account someone opened in his…
Take a 24-year-old who marries in June and joins a spouse’s work plan, sure the wedding ended their place on a parent’s family plan. It didn’t. They walked away from coverage they could have kept until 26. HealthCare.gov’s list of…
Too often, this talk happens after a fall or a stroke, when nobody can find anything. Picture a daughter whose father is in intensive care. His mortgage is due, his bank won’t discuss his accounts with her, and no one…
Take a single mom who earns $55,000, takes the standard deduction, has one child, and has checked the single box for years. By our math, head of household would cut her federal income tax by roughly $1,000 a year. The…
Until 2018, Epic Games let kids buy V-Bucks, Fortnite’s in-game currency, with a few button presses and no parent or cardholder involved. Some parents didn’t notice until the charges hit hundreds of dollars. In December 2022, Epic agreed to pay…
The amount you choose comes out of every paycheck next year. Money you don’t use for care by the end of the plan year is forfeited, though some plans add a grace period of up to two and a half…
Count on that happening at least once. Your 9-year-old spends the whole allowance on the first thing that catches their eye, and two days later the toy they wanted most turns up on the shelf. Your job is to sympathize…
It’s tempting to skip this policy when no paycheck would disappear and the working spouse already has life insurance through a job. That coverage insures the worker, so it pays nothing if the parent at home dies. Replacing what that…
That paperwork is worth the trouble. ValuePenguin’s 2024 analysis of Quadrant Information Services rate data found that adding a 16-year-old raised a married couple’s full-coverage premium by an average of 158%, or $3,252 a year. Even a 21-year-old added an…
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