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Your credit score can have a huge impact on your car insurance rates. To find out just how much of an impact (and why!), I chatted with folks from thezebra, TransUnion and Consumer Federation of America. My latest piece for The Wall Street Journal Buy Side https://lnkd.in/eGtd9ZyK

A source had an emergency pop up, so I'm scrambling! Any CFPs willing to chat about Gold IRAs today or tomorrow for an upcoming article I'm working on?

Thank you to everyone who made recommendations or shared referrals; I’m officially fully booked for the summer, and I am not accepting any more new clients. Thank you!

For the first time in literally years, I have some extra availability, and I'm looking to add one or two regular clients to my roster. If you need finance or healthcare content, let me know. I have certifications in financial education and student loan counseling, and my specialties are student loans/financial aid, insurance, credit cards and debt repayment. I've been published by Forbes, USA Today, WSJ's The Buy Side and more. You can view my portfolio at www.KTretina.com

Debt management plans, debt consolidation and debt settlement are three approaches to managing outstanding credit card balances or medical bills, but they're very different processes. I chatted with experts Bruce McClary and Madison Block to learn about the pros and cons of each option in this piece for Fortune Recommends https://lnkd.in/eZS3e-bV #debt #personalfinance #creditcards

This is going to be brutal for a lot of families. Federal student loan rates will reach record highs for the 2024-2025 academic year, with the rates on some loans surpassing 9.00% Rates on all loans went up by over 1.00 percentage point. #financialaid #FAFSA #studentloans

As campus protests occur all over the country, participating could have long-lasting consequences on student financial aid. My latest for NerdWallet Thanks to Jill Desjean with National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), Amanda Nordstrom with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Joseph D. Lento, Esquire, and Lori Wurtzel for providing their insights and expertise. https://lnkd.in/eDt9hrnB

This is the post that made me cringe (blacked out the poster’s info since employees are just the messengers). This is not a freelance position. It requires fixed hours. It requires 35 hours a week. That is a full-time commitment. I don’t know how this could possibly pass the employee classification tests. Worse, the pay is low. Considering that a freelancer has to pay their own taxes and benefits, it’s closer to $15 to $20 and hour. And if you’re a professional writer, you deserve better than that. Companies, do better.