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You already know about bonus travel miles and cash back rewards, but some credit card benefits stretch well beyond instant savings on a vacation getaway. Many credit cards include purchasing safeguards that protect against anything from rental car insurance to extended warranties.

If you can’t find your credit card policy or if you’re confused by the jargon, call your bank or credit card provider to ask about the credit card offers you’re entitled to. Taking the time to understand your credit card protection plan might determine when you use credit or cash on your next big purchase.

5 Credit Card Protection Policies

1. Car Rental Insurance

Saving money on your next vacation can start by reducing or declining car rental insurance. Many c

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While Christmas and Hannukah are obviously religious holidays, many nonreligious people such as myself still celebrate the annual gift-giving ritual. Whether it be white elephant gift exchanges with friends, presents for your favorite clients or coworkers, or spoiling your loved ones with something they have coveted all year, it’s the season for giving.

Hannukah was very early this month and has already passed, but if you are celebrating Christmas, I hope your shopping is well under way — Christmas Eve is one week from today! Luckily, you have some great last-minute options, like gift cards that can be printed out or delivered via e-mail or homemade crafts (there are some great suggestions in the posts featured below).

Each year, many of us go into credit card debt in order to buy hundreds of dollars of gifts (if not more) for our friends, family and loved ones each holiday season. Read more…

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Starting a business and doing it in a good way is the best choice to generate a good amount of income in which you are your own boss. There are people who run their business on a small scale and do this from home and generate a sufficient amount of income for living. Think for a while to start an office cleaning business which is a good choice.

Why to start an Office Cleaning Business?
There are a number of distinctive reasons for investing in an office cleaning business. The remarkably initial is the earning capability which mostly depends on the agreements you get in a specific time. If you are doing your business well then you even have opportunities of earning cash from dawn to dusk. You can start this business with smallest metropolis. If you have your own business, then you are your own boss and you can decide when to work and when to not according to your comfort. Read more…

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Credit scores used for employment screening?  I’ve called it the myth of the decade for many years.  Why…because it doesn’t happen.  Employ

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Are you saving enough for retirement? According to CNN Money, most Americans in their 50s will retire with only $120 a month in savings. Based on Wells Fargo’s annual retirement survey of 2,000 middle-class Americans ranging from 20 to 60 years old, “Americans aren’t saving enough, they are underestimating the amount of money they will need in retirement, and they are more likely to end up working through retirement.”

American adults think they are prepared, but they will be in for a rude awakening: “While most Americans predict they will need a nest egg of $300,000 to live on for 19 years in retirement, the average savings of 50-somethings is only $29,000, which comes out to an income of $190 a month over 20 years assuming a 5 percent rate of return,” CNN says.

With Social Security diminishing and pensions all but nonexistent, it looks like many Americans simply won’t have enough to retire on and will have to continue working past normal retirement age.

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