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Expertise
Budgeting and Saving, Credit Cards and Debt, Retirement and Investing, Taxes and Estate Planning
Location
Washington, DC
Credentials
CFP®; Consumer Advocate, Certified Financial Planner™ Board of Standards
Education
BA, Mount Holyoke; BA/MA Cambridge Univ; MBA U of Chicago
Eleanor Blayney, CFP® has been a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner for more than 20 years, and now serves as Consumer Advocate for Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards and President of Directions, LLC, an advisory service for women. She is the author of “Women’s Worth: Finding Your Financial Confidence.”
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My wife and I are both retired . We have a sustantial retirement income . Even though we recently bought a modest second home as a tax write off we had a tax bill of over 7000. How do we increase or start deductions for SS and increase our deductions from state retirement ? Any thing we can do with our surplus money every month to lower our tax liability ?
April 24 2012 / 31 Views / 1 Expert Answers / Taxes
my father died 7 years ago and my mother gets his retirement check we live in utah the check comes from benefits resourse center and they have been withholding a state tax on the check from ill. a ill. state tax not utah ..can they do that ?can i get it back for my mother?if so how?
April 24 2012 / 35 Views / 1 Expert Answers / Retirement
My wife and I can afford to wait until age 70 to start taking benefits. Will we maximize our benefits by both of us waiting until then or should we use a combination of spousal benefits and start at an earlier age? We are assuming I will live until age 92 and she will live until 94. I have paid the maximum into SS for 38 years and my wife also has paid in for 18 years at a lower rate.
March 23 2012 / 91 Views / 1 Expert Answers / Social Security and Medicare
I am looking for a person/company to help with debt consolidation etc. I have been told free services exist for this and I should not pay for this service as it is probably a scam. is this true and where can I look for references? thank you.
March 20 2012 / 54 Views / 1 Expert Answers / Credit cards
My husband lives in a nursing home & his SS check pays his bill each month. He is allowed to keep $30.00 per month. How do we file this on income taxes?
March 09 2012 / 137 Views / 1 Expert Answers / Financial aid
