You may qualify for medical debt hardship relief in more situations than you realize. Here's what to know now.

Employees can still submit hardship-based telework requests, but approvals must come from the agency’s leadership or its ...

Knowing the IRS rules on 401(k) withdrawals can help you determine how to handle your high-rate credit card debt.

The Education Department released its draft text for its new student-debt relief plan. It outlined four groups of borrowers it is prioritizing for loan forgiveness. A fifth group, borrowers with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Cicely Jones simplifies financial concepts for young professionals. If you look at your balance sheet and have an ...

There is some definition to those terms, but keep in mind plans are not required to allow hardship withdrawals. The plan documents, available from the plan’s administrator, will outline what a given ...

A hardship withdrawal is limited to the amount necessary to satisfy the financial need. This type of withdrawal should be a last resort. Better alternatives may include emergency funds, loans and ...

Jared Hughes has spent more than eight years covering personal finance, with bylines at the New York Post and NewsBreak. Fox Money is a personal finance hub featuring content generated by Credible ...

Three in five Americans now say inflation is causing them financial hardship, an increase from the end of last year despite inflation falling in recent months, according to a new poll. A Gallup poll ...

Amid stubbornly high inflation, a record-breaking share of Americans are turning their 401(k) accounts into emergency piggy banks, according to Vanguard. Dissecting data from a sample of the ...

Since 2000, most countries – across all income levels and regions – have made concurrent progress in expanding health service coverage and reducing the financial hardship associated with health costs, ...

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