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Terry Savage: Small business owners, now is the time to offer health insurance coverage

By Terry Savage

October 21, 2026 at 10:00 p.m.

Millions of Americans lost their health insurance this year when Obamacare premium subsidies disappeared.

Terry Savage: Your questions answered on Medicare open enrollment

By Terry Savage

October 16, 2026 at 10:00 p.m.

Yes, Medicare open enrollment is complicated — even if you already have coverage that you...

Terry Savage: Help navigating Medicare open enrollment

By Terry Savage

October 9, 2026 at 10:00 p.m.

Every senior MUST review Medicare coverage during open enrollment, which runs from October 15 and...

Terry Savage: Last call for mortgage refinancing

By Terry Savage

April 20, 2022 at 12:08 p.m.

If you waited and waited to refinance your mortgage, only to see rates rise recently,...

Terry Savage: 5 financial tasks to take care of now

By Terry Savage

April 20, 2022 at 12:07 p.m.

This is the typically the slow season of the year for personal finances — a...

Terry Savage: What to know about IRS Form 1099-K

By Terry Savage

April 20, 2022 at 12:06 p.m.

The IRS is taking a closer look at your fintech transactions. Starting in 2022, any...

Terry Savage: A financial valentine

By Terry Savage

April 20, 2022 at 1:13 p.m.

Give someone you love — or yourself — a financial valentine this week. Americans are...

Terry Savage: Do you live in a ‘sinkhole city’?

By Terry Savage

April 20, 2022 at 12:06 p.m.

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 sent $350 billion of federal tax dollars to...

<p>The cost of living in each state tends to match its median household income. When people cannot afford expensive goods and services, prices have to be set to a market that is driven by low wages. It is no surprise, then, that the poorest state, Mississippi, also has the nation's lowest cost of living.</p><p>To find the state with the lowest cost of living, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the <a href="https://meric.mo.gov/data/cost-living-data-series">Composite Cost of Living Index</a> for the third quarter of 2021, the most recent available, published by the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center. </p><p>The MERIC study uses an index based on the relative costs of groceries, housing, utilities, transportation, and health care to rank states. Mississippi's cost of living index was the lowest at 85.1, a figure driven largely by the very low cost of housing there - at 66.4, also the lowest in America. </p>

The states with the lowest cost of living

By Contributed Content

September 15, 2022 at 8:51 a.m.

Americans face a dilemma. The consumer price index rose 7% in December, and while wages...

Terry Savage: What to do with chicken money in inflationary times

By Terry Savage

April 20, 2022 at 12:06 p.m.

It's not fair that savers are losing money by trying to keep their money safe....

Terry Savage: What to do with chicken money in inflationary times

By Terry Savage

April 20, 2022 at 12:05 p.m.

It's not fair that savers are losing money by trying to keep their money safe....

If you're planning for retirement in coming years, you'll need to save a lot more for medical expenses. (Dreamstime/TNS)

Terry Savage: Retiree medical costs are soaring

By Terry Savage

April 20, 2022 at 12:06 p.m.

If you're a retiree dealing with Medicare, you've just noticed that your increased (5.9%) Social...

Terry Savage: Retiree medical costs are soaring

By Terry Savage

April 20, 2022 at 12:05 p.m.

If you're a retiree dealing with Medicare, you've just noticed that your increased (5.9%) Social...