Medicare premiums in 2026 start at a standard $202.90 for Part B but can rise significantly with 2024 income over $109,000 single or $218,000 joint due to IRMAA. Plan extra earnings carefully to avoid higher costs two years out. PeopleImages/Shutterstock Picture this: You pick up some extra income this year through a rewarding side project, a profitable investment sale, or even a long-overdue bonus. Two years from now, that same extra money could quietly increase […]

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How I Am Clearing $59,973.72 of Debt and Overhauling My Finances The Thrifty Issue is under new management! I’m Stephamie, and I will be sharing my debt journey, frugality tips, side hustles, all of it. In the past few years, I had some health and mental health issues, was unemployed for a period of time […] The post New Management + Financial Journeys Clearing Debt, Creating Side Hustles and Financial Freedom appeared first on The […]

Save, invest, prosper with My Own Advisor. Weekend Reading – Why more cash? Hi Folks! Welcome to a fresh Weekend Reading edition on cash and retirements by Wealthy Barbers. First up, a few recent posts in case you missed them… Earlier this week, I presented My roadmap to financial independence in my early 50s with my friends at TD Direct Investing –… Early retiree thanks to DIY investing in stocks and ETFs. The article Weekend […]

What caught my eye this week. .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{ -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent); mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent); } Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to get future editions direct to your inbox. The post Weekend reading: parched country hears more about the cash ISA changes nobody asked for. […]

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It appears to be an overlooked part of retirement planning. While we should always invest within our risk tolerance level we should also match our investment portfolios to the retirement cash flow plan. The plan gives the marching orders for each account. If you create a portfolio to plan mismatch, you could increase the risk of depleting an account too soon. On the other side if you are too conservative where an account has the […]

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The month of May 2026 is another month of dividend income landing in my accounts. Due to becoming debt free, I changed my pay myself model. Starting the beginning of August 2021, I am paying myself 30%, just like before. This will now consist of 24% […]

Investing in the right blogging courses — and then actually doing the work — can completely change your financial life. I know, because it changed mine. I started this blog in 2015. For the first year, I made basically nothing because I was guessing at everything. Then I started investing in courses, and something clicked. … Read more