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Why We Left Traditional Health Insurance

Family Balance Sheet

Health insurance is a touchy subject. Instead I’m writing about my family’s experience with traditional health insurance and how it has affected OUR finances. When I resigned from my corporate job, my boss asked me what my husband and I were going to do about health insurance.

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7 Steps To Homelessness And What To Do If You Get There

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Do you ever wonder how someone can sink to the point where they can no longer keep a roof over their head? Here is the story of someone I personally know who is nearing that point. Don’t Pay Your Taxes. She stopped paying income tax on the rare occasions when she did have income and did not pay county real estate taxes.

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Medi-Share Update: One Year Later

Family Balance Sheet

Health insurance is a struggle for many people, and for us it became a big source of anxiety at the end of 2015 when our insurance company went out of business. We scrambled to research new plans, but after 11 years with the same company we were out of the loop regarding the insurance landscape at that time.

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Why We Chose Medi-Share, an affordable solution to traditional health insurance

Family Balance Sheet

Health insurance is a touchy subject and everyone has a different point of view depending on their own life experience. For us, health insurance became a thorn in our side many years ago when I left a corporate job with benefits for a life of self-employment. We were basically buying catastrophic insurance.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #241 – June 15, 2012

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

PFP presents Tax Management posted at Pasadena Financial Advisor , saying, ” You should also consider how to “locate” your investment asset allocation with respect to more optimal taxation.” Insurance and Risk Mac Hildebrand presents What is catastrophic health insurance coverage?

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Meet Tracy, a Single Mom Who Paid Off $41,587 | Debt Free Stories

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The guy that I was dating at the time & I had come to a point in our relationship where we were planning for our future and a marriage. I had good tax returns due to high with holdings (lesson learned). We wanted to enter into marriage debt free. (He Start by categorizing where you have been spending money.

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Tax Reform – What it Means for Employees

For the Mommas

With the late December tax reform bill, many employees are wondering how this will impact them in 2018. We’ve written a brief summary below of some of the frequently asked questions regarding tax reform and their impact on individuals. When does the new tax law take effect? What are the new tax rates per tax reform?

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