Did Your First Responder Training Include This?
Firefighters, police, EMTs, and other first responders dedicate themselves to first responder training, how to keep themselves alive and save others when life goes tragically awry. Unfortunately, in almost every case, there's a big chunk left out of your education, a little thing we like to call a retirement...
Preparing for the Social Security benefits crash
Many moons ago, about 75 years to be exact, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Social Security benefits retirement system, a government program intended to function as an economic safety net for elderly and disabled persons struggling to make ends meet. These days, opinions about Social Security...
When going viral isn’t a bad thing
To those trained to deal with emergency situations on a daily basis, the word “viral” might raise the hairs on the back of your neck. Don't worry – nothing like that. We're talking about viral marketing and this idea could be a huge boost to your online business if you can figure out how to tap...
Still making mistakes when you’re dead?
Retroactive estate taxes from beyond the grave? Sounds like a bad Sci Fi movie.
But we can always rely on our lovable politicians in Washington D.C. to toss the certainty of anything, even death and taxes, up into the air. At the end of 2009, a federal estate tax that has been around since 1916 elapsed....
Your estate needs attention – STAT!
Living the busy and often chaotic lifestyle of a first responder is a recipe for estate planning neglect. And to those without experience in this particular area of finance, it's sometimes easier to turn a blind eye than get educated about exactly which documents you need to save your heirs a lot of...