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We all have gotten the calls…..your phone rings and normally you wouldn't answer an unknown number. But this call caught you off guard or maybe it was a number very similar to one you are familiar with. You answer with "Hello" or some other greeting and then an automated voice identifies a business or agency. After the brief intro, the recording will ask:

"Can you hear me clearly?"

The football season officially ended with the Super Bowl last night in the first overtime game in Super Bowl history.  Now the season that no one wants to come is here.  Tax return season. There is one tax preparer now advertising filing your returns and getting your taxes won. An interesting catch phrase for sure, but what is most important is getting the tax return done correctly.

After serving the Shoals area for close to 15 ½ years, Best Buy has announced it will close its Florence, Alabama store located at 398 Cox Creek Parkway on February 25, 2017.

As we finish the first month of the new year, tax season is starting to pick up.  By now many people have gotten their W-2’s or other tax forms from 2016 and they’re ready to file for their 2016 income tax returns.  If you’re in bankruptcy, or considering filing for bankruptcy, how will that affect your refund?

Last year, economists at the New York Federal Reserve released an analysis showing that older Americans were significantly more in debt than in previous years.  While this might not be that surprising given the aging population in the United States, a source of the debt might be less obvious: student loan debt.

The fallout continues from Wells Fargo’s settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) over the bank’s fake account scandal. Last September, federal regulators announced that Wells Fargo employees created upwards of 2 million bank and credit card accounts without customer approval.

Last fall, Wells Fargo admitted it had created over 2 million phony accounts as a result of an incentives program that rewarded employees who increased their sales numbers. Some employees who tried to report these wrong activities were retaliated against and fired.

I previously wrote a series of blogs addressing issues with student loan debt.  As previously mentioned, student loan debt has now surpassed a trillion dollars in this country.  Now the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has filed a lawsuit against one of the nation’s largest student loan servicers, Navient.  In the suit

In my June 8, 2016 blog, I talked a bit about the connection between Social Security (SSA) disability benefits and gun control, essentially that if a person is drawing SSA disability benefits for a mental health issue, among other things, it will pop up on the background check and those individuals may be legally proh