Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Make the most of your paycheck despite the expiration of the payroll tax holiday.

Here are some loose ends that anyone planning for retirement should tie up by year’s end.

Here is a list of four essential financial tasks you should complete before the end of the year.

Take the opportunity to review your company’s benefits during open enrollment.

A House vote today would ease current flexible spending account restrictions. Too bad it’s just symbolic.

Employer-provided benefits that can save workers tax dollars are one of the biggest costs to the U.S. Treasury. But apparently Uncle Sam’s costs could be higher if more employees took advantage of additional workplace offerings. Take flexible spending accounts, or FSAs, for example. These are a great way to stash money before taxes are taken

 If you have a medical flexible spending account at work and you didn’t spend all the money in that account by Dec. 31, 2010, you might have a second chance to do so. The flexible spending account, or FSA, is a company-provided benefit. It allows workers to put money into an account before taxes are withheld. Then that pretax

Did you make any money mistakes this year? Here are five things I did wrong with my finances that you’ll want to avoid in 2011. 1. Gambling with insurance I breathed a sigh of relief when we moved into a new home in 2010. We loved our old house but it was in a 500-year flood plain

If you’re anything like me, you probably got an unwanted Christmas present: a cold. But if you have a medical flexible spending account, or FSA, your sniffles also could help you maximize your 2010 tax savings. You put money into this workplace benefit before taxes are taken out of your check. Then you use the untaxed medical account funds