Saver’s credit helps low-income taxpayers save for retirement
As a piano teacher in Knoxville, Tenn., Jeannine Hines has almost nothing saved for retirement even though she's 60. So she was relieved when a financial planner told her Uncle...
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Plunging mortgage rates signal it’s a good time to refinance
About 6.7 million of the nation's homeowners — including 231,800 in Illinois — could be cutting their monthly mortgage payments sharply by refinancing their loans, a study by Black Knight...
Will you have to pay an Obamacare tax penalty?
If you bought health insurance last year through Obamacare, you may be pleasantly surprised at tax time to find out you have money coming to you. But it's just as...
Student loans make list of top Illinois consumer scams for the first time
With student debt now totaling about $1.2 trillion and pay for recent college graduates stuck in the doldrums, scams targeting people struggling with student loans have been proliferating and now...
Career earnings of low-income graduates lag, study says
College is supposed to be the great equalizer — the way to pull yourself out of a low-income background and position yourself for a better shot at the American Dream....
Door closing on Social Security strategy for baby boomers
If you are married, and you or your spouse will soon be 66 years old, you might be able to increase your Social Security by thousands of dollars, but there's...
Can you afford an average-priced home in Chicago?
With the median home price in the Chicago area up 7.5 percent over the last year, a buyer would need an income of $57,982 to afford it, according to research...
IRS says ID theft from Get Transcript service worse than thought
About 685,000 taxpayers will be getting letters from the Internal Revenue Service this week warning that hackers may have stolen their tax information. After a nine-month investigation, the IRS concluded...
It’s tax time. Here are some notable credits and deductions.
When you sit down to do your tax return, you won't find new twists as a result of federal tinkering. Congress brought back some of the old favorite deductions that...
Chicago-area home prices rise 9 percent from a year ago
The median sales price for Chicago-area homes rose 9.1 percent to $191,000 in January compared with $175,000 during the same month a year ago, according to the Illinois Association of...