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SECURE 2.0 made it easier for employers to help workers save for emergencies.

Understanding financial aid is important because it can determine whether your child attends the college of his or her choice. Financial aid can consist of loans, grants, scholarships, and work-study, and can be based on need or merit.

Some of the reasons to give life insurance to a charity include altruism, tax benefits, and to support a favorite charity.

There are a number of strategies parents might consider to increase the amount of financial aid their child may qualify for under the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. The idea is to optimize the student aid index, or SAI (formerly the expected family contribution, or EFC), to raise a child's aid eligibility. Although some of these strategies can be employed as late as the base year (the tax year the FAFSA relies on for income information), others can be implemented years before a child will be starting college.

Here are answers to some common questions about Medicare prescription drug plans.

You may be able tap your retirement plan account while you're still working.

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Too often we don’t want to spend time and mental energy revisiting the past, especially if it contains uncomfortable missteps. But stopping and looking carefully at those mistakes is exactly what can help us make better decisions moving forward. Think of your past decisions as a dataset that you can mine for insights. They can help you identify biases and assumptions that may be holding you back, develop strategies to shift your behavior going forward, and ultimately feel more confident that your process will lead to positive outcomes. Asking yourself these six questions from Harvard Business Review can help you apply lessons from your past decisions to your current situation.

Here's how to best think about strategic planning, communication rhythms and maintaining alignment for consistent growth as you plan for next year.

The unexpected happens. Erin Lowry proposes for savers to be allowed to take out up to $3,500 from retirement accounts penalty-free. Interested in your thoughts. Would that benefit be better than the current $1,000 limit?