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When Vise-Grip closed its plant last year in DeWitt, Neb., and moved it to China, Anita Oltmans lost her job. With no job, federal law prevented her from continuing to contribute to her 401(k) plan. She watched her account spiral down as the stock market crashed. See the rest here: Retirement overhaul: 401(k)s may not be the answer now (USA Today) Read Full Story
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Teachers require financial support for many purposes including starting of their own teaching institution. Even if the teachers in UK are going through financial troubles and have some risky tags like payment defaults, late payments, arrears and CCJs, still you have the option of taking out bad credit teachers loans.   These loans are based on the teachers’ repayment capability. If you can prove that you are capable of repaying the loan installments in timely manner, then these are easier loans to avail. To prove your repayment capability, you should produce the documents of your annual income, employment, bank statements of past few months. ... Read Full Story
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Download QDRO Instructions and Model QDRO Form for 401(k) Plans Package Includes: Detailed instructions for preparing a qualified domestic relations order to divide 401(k) plan benefits and a model QDRO form that can be used in any state. The documents can be adapted for use by 401(k) plan sponsors and distributed to plan participants or by attorneys who need to prepare QDROs for clients. Read Full Story
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PURCHASE, N.Y.—-The economic downturn has affected corporate spending on employee benefits–but not in ways one might expect. According to Diversified Investment Advisors’ Report on Retirement Plans–2009, a survey of corporations with 1,000 or more employees, 46% of plan sponsors are planning to reduce or eliminate employer contributions to their 401 plans or have already done so. Continued here: 401(k) Plan Sponsors Are Reducing or Eliminating Employer Contributions, but Overall Benefits Budgets Are Increasing, … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) Read Full Story
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Every day, you turn on the evening newscast and hear more bad news about the economy. Wall Street plunged again. Economic indicators are the worst since WWII. And unemployment continues to rise, along with more and more layoffs from major corporations. If you are one of the unfortunate workers who has been given walking papers and are now left with just a pink slip and your 401(k) account, here is what you can do to maintain your retirement savings after a layoff. Retain Your 401(k) with your Employer Most corporations that sponsor a 401(k) plan for their employees have an exit procedure for former ... Read Full Story
Chrysler, Ford and General Motors all curtailed leasing operations last year when credit markets locked up and soaring gasoline prices left them facing losses on the used SUVs and other gas-guzzlers that their financing arms sell when leases expire ...  
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Auto leasing, temporarily crippled by the credit and financial crisis, is making a comeback this fall. Chrysler, Ford and General Motors all curtailed leasing operations last year when credit markets locked up and soaring gasoline prices left them ...  
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In today's news, GM is going to begin repaying its government loan.Sort of.Most of GM's government debt, which came from the TARP, was converted to ownership in the New GM. So the government loans that GM is going to start repaying are only $6.7 Billion out of about $50 Billion it received in total.GM is sitting on a cash pile of $42.6 Billion, according to the news story. That cash is essentially all bailout money, as GM is not yet...  
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Should a family take a loan out of their 401(k) to pay for braces that cost $5,000?These days, it might make sense.While you should avoid taking a 401(k) loan, you might have little choice when credit card companies are stingy, consumer loans are tight or priced high out of reach and home values are so low that some families can no longer take out a home-equity line of credit.INTEREST SAVINGSTwo economists at the Federal Reserve Board in...  
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If the market crisis of 2008 taught employees anything about their 401(k) accounts, it was just how quickly they could turn into “201(k)” accounts (to quote those days’ painfully popular water-cooler joke). It also gave the insurance industry new ammunition in trying to convince 401(k) plan managers of the need to introduce annuity products to their menus. About a quarter of all companies these days offer their employees the option to...  
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Question: Should I take a loan against my 401(k) to pay off credit card debt? My plan is to refinance my home and use the extra money to re-pay the 401(k) loan. Answer: Simply put, you can't get ahead if you are always behind. Paying off debt should ...  
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