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Exploring Veteran’s Benefits

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Of all the official Veteran’s Administration veteran benefits, these are the ones it seems he may qualify to receive if he so elects. We don’t like debt. If your veteran is or is about to become, homeless, there are programs to help with food, housing and education. Education and training. VA Mortgage.

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Roth IRA Conversions? Better Wait and See.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Education, threats of hauntings from beyond the grave and repeated instructions seem to be the most direct ways of handling this. But, alas, now our wonderful elected leaders are discussing ways to ‘close this loophole’ (according to Forbes ) and force heirs to take distributions from any inherited IRA within 5 years.

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Meet a Reader | AF in Virginia

The Frugal Girl

The weight of debt can be so heavy mentally in addition to the direct effects of it. Did you ever receive any financial education in school or from your parents? When the student loan interest accrual was paused due to the pandemic, we buckled down and paid them off. It has been amazing for our finances and my mental health.

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