California leads the nation with starting the open enrollment for ACA health insurance on October 15, versus November 1 in the rest of the country. As I mentioned in the previous post When ACA ...
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When ACA Insurance Does Not Include Your Doctor
Since I left my full-time job in April, my wife and I get our health insurance from the ACA healthcare exchange (called Covered CA in California). We have an HSA-eligible Bronze PPO plan from Blue ...
Easy Early Retirement Portfolio Withdrawals
We're in the 4th quarter now. It's time to plan for the next year. When I left my full-time job in April, I still earned enough to cover our expenses for the rest of the year. Next year will be the ...
2019 Social Security COLA
[Updated on October 11, 2018.] The official announcement for 2019 Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA) came out. The COLA in 2019 will be larger than in 2018, but it's actually bad ...
Where To Get Vaccine Shots For International Travel
Last month we saw a good airfare deal we couldn't refuse. A round-trip ticket from the west coast to Kenya was under $900. We are going to climb Mount Kenya in January. We are also thinking of going ...
What To Do With A Maturing CD
Back in October 2015, I bought into a CD special from Northwest Federal Credit Union. It was a 3-year CD at 3%, which was a very good rate at that time. That CD is maturing next month. Another reader ...