Personal Finance

For members of AARP, AARP offers home insurance through The Hartford. It comes with unique benefits and services you can’t find with other home insurance companies, and you can personalize and customize your coverage to make it suit your needs. You don’t have to join AARP to purchase home insurance …

Photo by Luis Molinero / Shutterstock.com The coronavirus is rapidly shifting daily routines for millions of Americans, who are looking for ways to stay busy at home. Many of these folks have been laid off or furloughed. If a job loss or pay cut has you worried about paying the …

Photo by Sergey Mironov / Shutterstock.com Saving money on gas is one of the few silver linings to the coronavirus-inspired lockdown. Most of us are logging just a fraction of the miles we normally drive every week. Eventually, the pandemic will pass, and we will return to the open road. …

There are plenty of things that people don’t realize can damage their credit score, from reserving a rental car to canceling a credit card. At the same time, there are some things that people commonly believe can hurt their credit score — but that actually have no impact on scores. …

Many of us are at home riding out the days of a stay-at-home order. If we’re lucky, we’re working from home; if not, we might be receiving unemployment and waiting for an opportunity to get back to work. In any case, it’s in the best interest of a lot of …

Over the coming weeks and months, most Americans will receive a stimulus check from the federal government. This check is intended to help people struggling financially as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, either to directly make ends meet or to shore up their finances for difficult times to come. …

Photo by New Africa / Shutterstock.com The coronavirus has stopped ordinary day-to-day life in its tracks. But some things – broken pipes, stalled refrigerators, disrupted cable service – roll on. If such misfortune visits your household, waiting for the lockdown to end is not an option: You need to make …

One of the most interesting things I noticed in the last few weeks is that people are searching Google with terms like “how to make toilet paper.” Likely, these folks found themselves in a situation where there wasn’t any toilet paper in their local stores due to shortages and they …

Photo by Syda Productions / Shutterstock.com Amazon recently added a new way for its customers to rate their purchases. Called “one-tap ratings,” this new system enables buyers to give a star rating — from one to five stars — for a product without also having to write a review of …