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Budgeting 101

Making a budget can seem simple: You figure out your monthly income and portion it out. But when you sit down to do that, you can get overwhelmed. What bills...

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Start Now to Plan for Retirement

A few years ago, someone who had recently retired was asked, “So, you finally saved that last dollar, huh?” To which the retiree replied, “It wasn’t the last dollar I...

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Improve Your Financial Health

Your financial health is a lot like your physical health: You know there are things you can do to get healthier, but you might not know where to start. Following...

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Decoding Benefits Acronyms and Abbreviations

Benefits documents sometimes seem to be nothing but a bunch of bewildering acronyms strung together. But the meanings behind those letters should be anything but bewildering because they represent key...

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How to Read an Explanation of Benefits

Most people who have health insurance have become accustomed to receiving an Explanation of Benefits (or “EOB”) after a provider visit. Usually prominently marked “This is not a bill,” the...

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Eyes and Teeth: When are they Covered?

Your eyes and your teeth have something in common: They tend to be treated differently than the rest of your body when it comes to health benefits. In fact, you...

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Your Benefits: Emergency Care and Urgent Care

When a pressing medical condition presents itself, your first thought usually isn’t, “What will my healthcare benefits cover?” But that often will be your second or third thought, and knowing...

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How You Pay for Healthcare

Paying for healthcare can be confusing. It’s one of the few things we purchase without knowing what we’re going to pay until days, weeks or even months after we receive...

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Traveling with Benefits

When planning trips and vacations, health coverage is one of those things we seldom consider but probably should. After all, accidents and illnesses can occur while you’re traveling, and if...

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Prescription Benefit Basics

With prescription drug prices driving a big chunk of healthcare costs, your prescription benefit card can be a pretty powerful income-protection tool. The challenge, as it turns out, is understanding...

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