A new site www.LearnVest.com: Learn, Earn, Invest just launched to help young women take control of their finances. The chic site helps recent grads learn how to maximize employee benefits to keeping their online presence professional and clean. LearnVest and Reebok have joined together to launch a financial boot camp to run January 4 to [...]
More Americans are getting help to pay home heating bills, and more are likely to need help as the economy continues to struggle, says the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association. Almost 8 million U.S. households received federal government help to heat homes in fiscal year 2009, up 33% from the prior year, the association says. [...]
PHILADELPHIA (November 30, 2009) – One in every 10 Americans is currently unemployed. Foreclosure filings were reported on close to one million properties in the third quarter of 2009. Personal savings, if it exists at all, is a fraction of what it should be. Terms on credit cards are rapidly changing, putting some consumers over [...]
If you are going to Target, bring your calculator! That jug of Tide that you thought cost less per ounce than that bottle of Cheer, might actually have cost you more at Target. Some retailers have unit price inaccuracies and have failed to correct them even when they’re alerted. In September 2006, Consumer Reports Money Adviser [...]
TD Bank officials said customers now have access to all expected direct deposits. A computer glitch had been confounding online banking customers all week. Customers who log into their accounts were not seeing up-to-the-minute details on transactions due to a problem integrating the computer systems of the old TD Banknorth and Commerce Bank. The bank [...]
TD Bank says it will reimburse customers who incur fees because of computer problems that have delayed transaction postings all week. The problem came about as it tried to integrate the computer systems of the old TD Banknorth and Commerce Bank. This meant that deposits were not showing up immediately causing many people to become [...]
ATM fees, monthly service fees on interest-bearing checking accounts and bounced check fees have raised to new highs. The rise has been occurring for years, but this time Congress is paying attention. In 2009, consumers paid an average fee of $3.54 to use another bank’s ATM, up 16% from 2004. This includes the fee charged [...]
Laura Ogden saves a ton of money with a little time and a little fabric…and you can too. See how this local woman puts her crafty know-how to work.
Let’s go inside the Vault- where all of the unclaimed property found in PA is kept…all you have to do is search your name in the database to see if you have a treasure waiting for you!
Here’s a touching story about a woman whose mission is to reunite unclaimed property with the rightful owner. In just Pennsylvania alone, there is more than 1.5 billion dollars in unclaimed property and according to PA State Treasurer, Rob McCord, you have about a 1 in 10 chance of having property in your name! To [...]
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