Personal Finance

Happy National Insurance Awareness Day!
It is National Insurance Awareness Day! It is time to review your insurance policies to help ensure that you and your family are receiving appropriate coverage. Whether it is life insurance, home insurance, health insurance, or vehicle insurance, these policies help protect us from the harshest blows of unfortunate events. We are celebrating National Insurance Awareness Day to remind you that life does not always go as planned, but luckily, insurance can be an effective back up plan.
So how does one celebrate National Insurance Awareness Day? There are three simple, but very important tasks that you…

Let’s discuss the unthinkable… you seem to have it all, a beautiful house, three healthy children, a financially stable life, and a loving devoted partner, but what happens when the unthinkable scenario of suddenly becoming a widow turns into a reality? Your world is turned upside down almost instantly. You are now a widowed mother of three with expenses that you just cannot afford on your own. According to the New York Times, “the household income for widows typically declines 37 percent after a spouse dies” (“New Widows Have Another Concern: Their Finances”, 2015). The sudden drop in household income…