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If you are looking for ways to pay down debt or find money to make a large purchase, you may be sitting on a gold mine at your house.  Besides the obvious categories, such as furniture and toys, there are several other categories of items where you can make money fast from your own home and they are:

Yes, in some circumstances, filing either a chapter 7 or chapter 13 bankruptcy will allow you to get your suspended driver’s license reinstated.

Former (and probably future) Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has recently introduced a bill optimistically entitled the Social Security Administration Fairness Act that proposes to touch on some of my chief areas concern that I have blogged about in the past where the agency often struggles to fulfill its man

We have been hit hard in the last three years with the loss of musical icons.  In 2016, we lost Prince.  In 2017, it was Tom Petty.   Now we have lost the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.  There are no words to sufficiently describe the impact of this loss.  Aretha is, and always

Scammers constantly try and use the Internal Revenue Service as a way to get honest Americans to pay them.  We often hear reports from victims who receive a call from someone claiming to be with the IRS to get money out of them.  Here are some common scams the IRS warns about:

A large credit card issuer has a marketing campaign whose television commercials end with the question, “What’s in your wallet?” No doubt, you have seen one of these commercials. Credit cards are big business. As of June 30th, the total amount of revolving debt carried by Americans exceeded $1 trillion.

What Is the Debt Relief Clinic?

As the fall semester starts for most college students, we must remind students to beware of targeted scams.  Recently, a news article in USA Today highlighted a scam where students were receiving calls from someone claiming to be a college official and threatening the students with classes being dropped if th

I have recently seen a rash of individuals holding security clearances or wanting to get a clearance who have an issue arise due to debt problems.  While I have written about this topic previously here, it occurs to me to try and come up with a detailed analysis for someone with delinquent debts who is seeking a clearance (or in the process of losin

Student loan debt is no longer affecting just the borrower that took out the loan, but the borrower’s family as well.  The cost to attend college has been on the rise since the early 1980s, and while that may not be a surprise in and of itself due to inflation, data shows that tuition costs are now more th