Posted on October - 28 - 2011

Ghost and Ghouls!

Where you believe in ghosts or not, a case of ID theft will haunt you for a very long time. The simplest way to protect yourself is to enroll in our credit monitoring, let us do the worrying for you.

The holiday are the busiest time of year for ID thieves, I attribute this to the hustle and bustle that goes on around this time of year. Many of us are shopping for the perfect Christmas gifts, and running from store to store and with that it becomes a bit easier to accidentally open ourselves up to ID theft. It could be as simple as dropping a credit card receipt, throwing out a financial statement without shredding it,   or any of the above.

With our credit monitoring service, you will be alerted anytime a change is made to all 3 of your reports.

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Posted on October - 28 - 2011

TransUnion asked to stop selling credit reports to employers

If you can’t get hired for a job because of lousy credit, a coalition of advocacy groups is fighting for your right to work.  

A collection of 27 consumer advocacy, civil rights and community groups, as well as labor unions and concerned citizens, have joined to demand that credit bureau TransUnion end its sale of consumer credit reports to potential employers. Some companies review credit reports as a way to predict who will be a responsible and trustworthy worker. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 13 percent of employers check the credit of all job applicants, while 47 percent of employers conduct checks for select applicants.

That’s a problem, the coalition argues.”Families across the country are facing the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.

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Posted on October - 28 - 2011

Roth IRA responsible after retirement

roth iraRoth IRA, let me first explain it, it’s a kind of individual retirement plan formulated by the federal government. So Roth here is named after the legal senator Mr. William Roth in memory for the contributions done by him for developing this retirement plan. This plan seriously holds well for people who think of retirement, after all everybody is gonna retire one day or the other. For more information on what Roth IRA is one can see the page roth-ira.org it would turn the lights on what contributions are necessary to be made and also other information’s such as income limits. etc Read more…

Posted on October - 26 - 2011

Five Tips to Keep from Trashing your Credit with your Credit Card

There is a lot ambivalence surrounding that little plastic thing with the magnetic strip we call a credit card. We hate them because they get us in debt over our heads. We love them because we can use them to purchase stuff without having to use cold hard cash that we don’t have. Any financial pro will tell you that if you don’t watch your credit card expenditures, your credit will take a nose dive faster and deeper than with just about any other financial instrument.

Conversely, to those who handle the credit card with care, they become a tool to sagely build up their credit and protect their financial future. The question is really not whether you should use a credit card but how you should use it. Using that rationale, here are five tips from the financial experts on the proper care and management of credit cards.

1) Don’t grab the first credit card offer that comes to you. Read more…