Benefits make up over 30% of a typical employee’s total pay package according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s crucial to review your benefits choices each year during open…
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An HSA (or Health Savings Account) has three separate tax advantages that make it an important saving (and even investing) option for employees who have access to them. HSA contributions…
These are real success stories from people we’ve worked with at BrightDime. We’ve changed the names and any identifying details, but the stories are 100% true. Pamela’s employer had just…
So you want to invest! In what? What kind of account? What type of investment? How much risk are you willing to take? What are your goals? Yikes! There is…
Independence means not relying on anyone or anything else; strong and able to survive alone; free. Sound pretty good? Let’s take it a step further and explore financial independence. That…
When you’re ready to invest for your long term goals you’ll need to choose where to do that. We don’t mean what to invest in , that’s a different step.…
National Influenza Vaccination Week (usually the first week in December) is the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) annual awareness campaign to remind people of the importance of getting a flu…
We all have that pile of “important” documents that we’re not sure if we should keep or toss. Or maybe you get most things electronically now and have been saving…
A beneficiary is a person, people, or entity designated to receive assets (money, property) from another person in the event of that second person’s death. A beneficiary can be set…
An HSA is similar to a Health Care Flexible Spending Account (HCFSA); you can pay for health care expenses from this account before taxes, but the HSA has several notable…