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Best Ways To Save Money
In this day and age of spend, spend, spend it's hard to save a dime for the future. Everyone has at least one credit card and every single day a new credit card application or as most say, "junk mail" arrives at your home. To make saving even harder it seems that there's always an occasion to spend money, like Christmas, Easter, 4th Of July, Birthdays and on and on the "spending cycle" goes. So wh... Read personal finance article



Secret To Saving
When it comes to saving money, it often seems as if some can and some can't. What secret do the "can's" know that the rest of the world just can't figure out?

Saving money is a basic part of managing your finances. It is necessary for financial success. It is necessary for many of the things you want to do.

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Non-Profit Retirement Planning
U.S. employees of government agencies and organizations and tax exempt organizations should know about tax code section 457 when planning their retirement. This section of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax code governs the compensation plans that are deferred and non-qualified for those employees of governments and tax-exempt institutions other than churches. The pension plan that has been created for the retirement of these folks has been named the Section 457 plan. These employees can defer part of their compensation pre-taxed through deductions from their payroll. This defers both state and federal taxes until these retirement assets start being withdrawn.

Such eligible retirement plans have monetary ceilings on the amounts that can be deferred. The amount that is deferred in this way for retirement cannot be more than either 100 percent of the employee's pay or $15,000 - whichever is the lesser. This $15,000 2006 figure will increase each year by $500 to adjust for increases in cost of living.

Only certain eligible employers are allowed to set up a section 457 plan. These are defined by the IRS as states and their subdivisions, instruments or political subdivisions of the states, and any entity that is not a unit of the government but is exempt from federal income tax. The latter includes religious and charitable organizations, educational institutions and organizations, private hospitals, labor unions and trade associations, private foundations, farming cooperatives and fraternal orders.

A section 457 plan will not pay out for retirement before the calendar year in which the participant reaches age 70 ½ and has severed employment with the participating firm. A severe financial hardship, unexpected illness or injury due to accident or other unforeseen emergency can allow for withdrawal from the retirement plan as well.

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Long Term Care and Long Term Care Insurance

Clearly, you don't want to dwell on an image of you or your spouse in a wheel chair or nursing home, but if you don't plan ahead now for such eventualities, you could end up with a crippling financial burden that can strip a family of it's entire nest egg.

Funding for eventual long term care must be planned for far in advance, and long term care insurance seems to be the tool of choice. The alternatives really suck by comparison, so it's time to get going to put your plan in place while you still can.

Fact is, there is nearly a 50% chance that during retirement, due to medical conditions or extended longevity, a person will eventually end up requiring 24-hour skilled nursing care in a long term care facility.

Another astounding fact is that more than 40% of nursing home residents are under age 65. In truth, at age 57, due to advanced Multiple Sclerosis, I myself would be in a care home if my wife would let me out of her sight.

And now let's look at the average length of facility care plus the projected costs for that care...

Long Term Care - It's Leading Causes & Average Lengths of Nursing Home Stays ( from Financial Planning News ):

Alzheimer's: 96 months
Diabetes: 48 months
Pulmonary: 36 months
Cancer: 36 months
Stroke: 21 months
Cardiac:16 months

What happens if you don't have long term care insurance, but you do need this long term care?

Well, at room rates of $300.00 per day, if care costs inflate at least 5% annually, then 10 years from now, the average, Alzheimer's, long term care stay in a private room could cost a family over $1,400,000.00+

Do you want your family to pay THAT out of savings? I don't think so, and long term care insurance is clearly the only sensible answer, but is long term care insurance too expensive?

Long term care insurance can cost from under $100/mo. to over $1000/month, so sure, at first insurance can seem expensive, yet consider this:

At 5% annual compounded inflation, in 10 years, actual real-life care costs could mount to well over anything you might ever put into long term care insurance. Just do the math.

The annual long term care insurance premium investment is often less than the actual cost of just ONE MONTH in a care situation.

NOTE: Recent industry articles indicate that long term care insurance is such a valuable planning tool that financial advisors may face legal action if they neglect to at least recommend consideration of coverage. (Trusts & Estates Magazine)

Long term care insurance may make good financial sense for you and yours, and the early bird gets the worm, because the lowest long term care insurance prices are locked in at the younger ages and are designed to remain level thereafter.

In any case, each policy is designed to custom fit your circumstances, so you have to work with a trained long term care insurance specialist in order to create the optimal coverage plan. You'll want a multi-company broker who can compare companies and policies to find the best long term care insurance plan for your unique situation.




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