Retirement Plans If you can afford to do so, investing the maximum amount allowable in a qualified retirement plan will yield a large tax benefit. If your employer has a 401(k) plan and you are under age 50, you can defer up to $23,500 of income into that plan for 2025. Catch-up contributions of $7,500 are [...]
This article was published by the SSA. As Congress works to pass a new federal budget, the government is currently shut down. We know this raises questions. We have answers to the most commonly asked questions about how the shutdown impacts you. Will the Shutdown Affect Payments? No, it will not affect payments. If you receive [...]
Establishing parentage is the recognition of a parent's legal relationship to a child. Legal parentage is not the same as: having a genetic relationship with the child intending to be a parent holding oneself out as a parent having a presumption of parentage due to marriage Parentage is so important because children gain important rights and [...]
Establishing "legal fatherhood," or paternity, is one of the most important things you can do for your child. You don't have to be the biological father to establish legal fatherhood; you simply need to be married to the birth mother at the time of the child's birth. If the mother is unmarried at her child's [...]
This article was published by the IRS. Taxpayers receiving Social Security benefits may have to pay federal income tax on a portion of those benefits. Social Security benefits include monthly retirement, survivor, and disability benefits. They don't include supplemental security income payments, which aren't taxable. The portion of benefits that are taxable depends on the taxpayer's [...]
