by Charlie Hollins | Sep 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
In September 2017 Equifax, the consumer credit reporting agency, admitted that it had suffered a cyber-security breach of its system which had compromised the personal data of some 147 million customers in the United States alone. That translates to roughly 1 in 3...
by Charlie Hollins | Aug 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
It was in June 1934 as part of his New Deal that President Franklin D. Roosevelt created by executive order a Committee for Economic Security (CES) which was to study the issue of economic instability and make recommendations upon those findings. Six months later the...
by Charlie Hollins | May 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
In a notice issued earlier this month the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, better known as HUD, formally recognized the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act and will now disregard the amounts in beneficiaries’ ABLE accounts when...
by Charlie Hollins | Apr 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
T.S Eliot famously set off on his epic poem“The Waste Land” by declaring it the cruelest month but April has an additional identity as National Social Security Month, even if the notion is still to catch on at a truly national scale. There is certainly little evidence...
by Charlie Hollins | Mar 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
The CASH Campaign of Maryland (Creating Assets, Savings and Hope) is a new program that has been set up to assist Maryland residents with modest means to work towards financial security. As part of that initiative CASH has been promoting its free Financial Planning...
