There was some good news and some bad news last week…
Your Family CFO Team • July 31, 2017
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- 10 Things You Need to Know About Health Savings Accounts
By Kimberly Lankford, Contributing Editor
July 19, 2017
If you don’t have many medical expenses now, in the long term you’ll be able to benefit even more from the tax advantages of an HSA. You’ll get a tax break for your contributions, then you can build up a tax-free stash of money to help pay for medical … Read More - title="There was some good news and some bad news last week…> There was some good news and some bad news last week… First, the good news: Thanks to consumer spending and an upturn in federal government spending, the U.S. economy grew faster from April through June this year. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.6 percent during the period, according to the advance estimate for economic growth. This was an improvement over growth from January through March, …
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