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Long-term care and annuities

If a family unexpectedly loses one of the incomes, the effect can be devastating. If we look around, there are tens of thousands of two-income families struggling to make ends meet. If unemployment cuts off one income you always hope this is just a temporary blip. But if the worst has happened, there’s no recovery. [...]

Get adequate cover

Sometimes acronyms work really well. They lodge in the mind we’re forever stuck with remembering them like Washington’s self-fulfilling prophesy in the the VOTER Act, i.e. Voting Opportunity and Technology Enhancement Rights Act. Other times, we wish someone had taken out a gun and shot the clever idiot who thought up these mixtures of letters. [...]