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It can be hard to turn down family members that  needed a cash infusion. But to keep both the relationship and retirement fund intact, boomers need to set clear payback guidelines and expectations.

New guidelines coming from the Department of Labor clarifies rules regarding benefits for those in same-sex marriages. 

Dave Says: How to handle an inheritance and when is the right age to purchase long-term health insurance?

Dave Says: Whether they're family members or professions, pushy loan collectors can be hard to deal with. Here's how to navigate the situation and clear your finances. 

While it’s clear financial literacy needs to be improved, there’s debate on who should be making the lessons: teachers, parents, or a combination of both.

Dave Says: How to teach a teenager with a job how to best manage a paycheck and when should a couple consider creating a family trust?

CrowdFlik has built a free app that lets users put together video clips filmed and shared by other users from the same event, be it sporting events, weddings, birthday parties or other events.

While we might get a chuckle from some of the crazy antics being done in viral videos, often the people in them are laughing all the way to the bank. Here’s how you can cash in on the trend.

If you have things in your life that are pulling at you financially at some point you may have to ask the hard question, “What is more important to me: horses and boats or home ownership?”

It all started because of a growing concern on the part of university officials: an increasing number of graduates were walking away with a diploma and a significant amount of student loan debt.

A just-published report by researchers at the New York Federal Reserve Bank confirms what many have suspected: the driving force behind sky-rocketing college tuition is the increased availability of federal student aid.

You’ll have to repay the loan and probably the interest and some of the late charges. But $16,000 in fees is a bunch of crap.

Dad needs to get real busy, real fast or else his daughter will be drowning in debt when she graduates.

In most cases, collection agencies have no right to your account numbers or electronic access.

While student loan debt owed by seniors is a “small fraction” of the total, it is growing rapidly, according to a recent government report.

Dave says lending money to friends is usually a bad idea. If you can help a friend in need, give the money as a gift.

A magical thing happens when you pay down a house and sell it somewhere down the road. The money comes back.

Dave Ramsey tells a couple to pay off their existing mountain of debt before digging a deeper hole by going back to school.

Paying down debt means more than extra cash in the bank. It also means better mental health.

The promise of fast and easy credit repair can be misleading to young grads navigating and learning the process of building credit firsthand. Here’s what credit experts say young adults need to be on the watch for and how they can maintain a health credit score.