TV or radio ads probably won’t help struggling taxpayers, but the IRS’s Offer in Compromise program can.
U-Conn.’s Shabazz Napier says he sometimes can’t afford to eat and could use the cash.
The IRS would not ask anyone to wire money or threaten to send police to your home.
Post columnist Michelle Singletary offers her advice and answers your questions.
Commissioner John Koskinen has 40 years of experience, primarily dealing with organizations under stress.
If your moment is popular enough on social media, advertisers will come.
Post columnist Michelle Singletary offers her advice and answers your questions.
It’s illogical to continue making a house payment just to receive a tax break.
Talk to your adult children about your long-term-care plans.
Post columnist Michelle Singletary offered her advice and answers your questions.
If you can’t pay your expenses with your current paycheck, borrowing from the next one isn’t going to help.
Help your loved ones by recording your financial and medical wishes in case something happens to you.
Post columnist Michelle Singletary offered her advice and answers your questions.
If someone lost a job or was in a financial struggle and you didn’t come to the rescue, are you are bad friend?
Obama administration is using the excitement over the NCAA brackets to sell people on health care.
The group may be the first cohort to end up worse off than their parents.
Post columnist Michelle Singletary offered her advice and answers your questions.
The Labor Department pushes a plan for a guide to clarify fees so that employers can better inform their employees.
Michelle Singletary writes the nationally syndicated personal finance column, “The Color of Money,” which appears in The Post on Wednesday and Sunday. Her award-winning column is syndicated by The Washington Post Writer’s Group and is carried in more than 100 newspapers. In 2010, she released her third personal finance book, “The Power To Prosper: 21 Days to Financial Freedom.” She has been a personal finance contributor for MSNBC, NPR and ABC’s daily talk show, “The Revolution.” For two seasons she hosted “Singletary Says” on TV One. In her spare time, Singletary is the director of a ministry she founded at her church, in which women and men volunteer to mentor others who are having financial challenges. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park. She has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from The Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a master’s degree in business and management.
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