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When You Need to Pay Taxes on Social Security 02/20/2024 07:00pm • While Social Security benefits are designed to provide a safety net, they are not always tax-free. Knowing whether you'll owe taxes on the benefits you receive is important as you budget for retirement. To determine if your Social Security benefit is taxable, you'll first want to know how much incom What Is a Good Monthly Retirement Income? 02/20/2024 07:00pm • Retirement means leaving behind the security of a regular paycheck and instead relying on savings or other sources of income to pay the bills. That can be a scary proposition for some. "I tell people, why don't you do a trial run on it?" said Barbara A. Pietrangelo, a certified financial planner at The Fastest Way to Get Your Tax Refund in 2024 02/20/2024 07:00pm • The IRS finally made it through a backlog of tax returns caused by COVID 19-related delays. The agency had a backlog of about 17 million paper-filed Form 1040 tax returns at the close of the 2021 tax-filing season, but by the end of 2023 that backlog was virtually eliminated, according to the Nation What to Know About Buying a House When You're 60 and Older 02/20/2024 07:00pm • If you're over 60 and buying a house, you may second-guess making such a commitment. Whether it's your first home or your 10th, unless you're buying the house with cash, you'll probably take on a 15- or 30-year mortgage, and a good chunk of your retirement budget will be monthly house payments. You Republican dissenters sink a GOP 'flat' tax plan in Kansas by upholding the governor's veto 02/20/2024 06:28pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Republican plan to cut taxes in Kansas died Tuesday in the GOP-controlled Legislature when enough members concluded that it would favor wealthy taxpayers too much and upheld the Democratic governor's veto. The vote in the state House was 81-42, leaving GOP leaders three votes Republican Eric Hovde seeks to unseat Democrat Baldwin in Wisconsin race for US Senate 02/20/2024 06:14pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican businessman and real estate mogul Eric Hovde launched his bid for the U.S. Senate against Wisconsin Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Tuesday, calling for bipartisan solutions to bolster the middle class and to tackle immigration and national security. “W Wrangling in Virginia leaves local funding for Metro stalled — not derailed 02/20/2024 05:37pm • Metro funding is absent from the Virginia Senate's budget plan, but the leader of a Washington regional government group is "confident the bills will be paid" and that Metro can "move forward." Clark Mercer, executive director of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, explained that Navalny's mother appeals to Putin to release her son's body so she can bury him with dignity 02/20/2024 04:04pm • The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appealed Tuesday to President Vladimir Putin to intervene and turn her son's body over to her so she can bury him with dignity. Lyudmila Navalnaya, who has been trying to get his body since Saturday, appeared in a video outside the Arctic penal For Black ‘nones’ who leave religion, what’s next? 02/20/2024 03:47pm • (RNS) — When Black Americans leave religion, it’s rarely a clean break. Take Rogiérs Fibby, a self-described agnostic, atheist and secular humanist who grew up in the Moravian Church. The head of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Black Secular Collective, Fibby also considers himself “cult Editorial Roundup: United States 02/20/2024 01:26pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Feb. 17 The Washington Post on suicides in federal prisons Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide and mob boss Whitey Bulger’s murder both made headlines as shocking failures of the federal prison system. But the shortcom Minnesota man who shot 2 officers and a firefighter wasn't allowed to have guns 02/20/2024 11:32am • A man who killed himself after fatally shooting two police officers and a firefighter in a wooded Minneapolis-area neighborhood wasn't legally allowed to have guns after a previous assault conviction and was entangled in a yearslong dispute over the custody and financial support of his three oldest How to File Taxes for Free 02/19/2024 07:00pm • The start of a new year also means the start of a new tax season. If you're looking to minimize the cost of filing this year, you're in the right place. Many programs and companies offer free filing services. That said, your tax situation needs to be pretty simple to qualify. Here's a closer look at What Is Loud Budgeting and Should You Be Doing It? 02/19/2024 07:00pm • Loud budgeting may be Generation Z's trend du jour, but the roots of this concept run deep. As a method of candidly communicating money concerns and goals, it hits all the right notes for what's going on today. Top TikTok creator and comedian Lukas Battle is credited for coining the term in December How to Decide Between Public Administration and Public Policy Master's Degrees 02/19/2024 07:00pm • Brittany Dymond's journey from being a business student to a Boeing engineer and now an associate legislative director at the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Washington, D.C., would be hard to explain without her degree from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washingto Should Retirees Follow the 100-Minus-Your-Age Rule for Stock Allocation? 02/19/2024 07:00pm • For Americans already in retirement and those drawing close, optimizing their investment portfolio while minimizing risk is top of mind. That's where the 100-minus-your-age rule claims to help, primarily by setting an age-appropriate cap on the percentage of stocks in your retirement portfolio. Here