Posts tagged HSA
Use November to Finalize Year-End Success and Plan for 2025
Use November to Finalize Year-End Success and Plan for 2025

Wait until December, you risk falling into the apathy and distractions common from Thanksgiving to the New Year. Do you want that for your finances?

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Open Enrollment: Medical Plans & Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
Open Enrollment: Medical Plans & Health Savings Accounts (HSA)

Open enrollment can be perplexing for many is analyzing High Deductible Health Plans (HDHP) and their tax savings counterpart, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).

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Budgeting, Tax Planning, Work Benefits, Your $ Your IndependenceGlenn BrownBest Practice, family, Focus on your why, Financial Planning, Health Plans, HDHP, HSA, Health Care, Health Insurance, Health, Healthcare, Work Benefits, Medicare, Tax Planning, taxes, Tax Deadlines, Your Money Your Independence, Health Savings Accounts, Medical Expenses, FSA, Open Enrollment, Employee Benefits
Peak Earnings Years Are Your 50’s - Your Parents Maybe, You… Not So Much.
Peak Earnings Years Are Your 50’s - Your Parents Maybe, You… Not So Much.

Top 10% earners in their 30’s and 40’s believe they’ll earn considerably more in their 50’s. Don’t plan on it.

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Budgeting, Investing, Retirement, Retirement Planning, Your $ Your IndependenceGlenn BrownAgeism, Earnings, Income Streams, Employee Benefits, Priorities, Savings, Budget, Savings Prioritization, 401(k), HSA, 529 Plan, IRAs, Roth IRA, Experience Spending, Best Practice, Debt Management, Cash Flows, Focus on your why, Financial Planning, Goals, Investing, Work Benefits, Tax Planning, Your Money Your Independence
Eye Opening Costs At Open Enrollment?
Eye Opening Costs At Open Enrollment?

Over past year, health insurance prices have increased 3X to US inflation. It’s time to fully understand HDHP, HSA and how to do your cost/benefit analysis.


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Insurance, Budgeting, Investing, Retirement Planning, Tax Planning, Your $ Your IndependenceGlenn BrownBest Practice, Work Benefits, Health Insurance, Health Plans, Health Savings Accounts, HSA, Inflation, Investing, HDHP, PPO, taxes, Tax Planning, Taxes, tax planning, Employee Benefits, FSA Dependent Care, Financial Independence, FSA, Financial Planning, Goals, Healthcare, 401(k), Life Insurance, Local Town Pages, Open Enrollment, Priorities, Your Money, Your Money Your Independence, Savings, Year-End
Open Enrollment: Benefits to Opt-In for your HSA
Open Enrollment: Benefits to Opt-In for your HSA

HSA can offer “triple tax benefits”: tax-free contributions, tax-free earnings, and tax-free distributions.

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Insurance, Retirement Planning, Work Benefits, Your $ Your Independence, Investing, Tax PlanningGlenn BrownBest Practice, Employee Benefits, FSA, Financial Planning, family, FSA Dependent Care, Financial Independence, Goals, HSA, HDHP, Health Plans, Health, Healthcare, Investing, Kids, Work Benefits, Health Savings Accounts, Health Insurance, Retirement, Savings, Tax Planning, Your Money, Your Money Your Independence, Newborn, taxes, Taxes, Year-End, Open Enrollment, Medical Expenses
September is the Best Tax Planning Month. Yes, really.
September is the Best Tax Planning Month. Yes, really.

Reconcile tax planning strategies for the current year while positioning for the year ahead.

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Tax Planning, Retirement Planning, Your $ Your Independence, Work Benefits, Investing, InsuranceGlenn BrownSandwichers, Tax Deadlines, Tax Planning, Tax-Loss Harvesting, taxes, tax planning, Taxes, Dependent Care, FSA, FSA Dependent Care, DC-FSA, Child Tax Credit, children, HSA, Health Savings Accounts, Roth Conversion, Work Benefits, 401(k), 403(b), Employee Benefits, Financial Planning, Gifting, HDHP, IRAs, IRA Contributions, Social Security, Life Insurance, Local Town Pages, Roth IRA, RMD, Traditional IRA, Wash Sale, Year-End, Your Money Your Independence, IRA Withdrawals, Required Minimum Distributions
Closing Time for 2020
Closing Time for 2020

There are investing, tax planning, and retirement planning opportunities to be had before year-end.

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Proactive Planning and Health Remain Critical
Proactive Planning and Health Remain Critical

Putting off your health or planning over fear isn’t the “new normal”.

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Ten Years Gone: People Evolve, Plans Should Too.
Ten Years Gone: People Evolve, Plans Should Too.

A plan is not a buy-and-hold investment, it needs to be dynamic as you evolve.

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Tax planning in September? You should and here’s why.
Tax planning in September? You should and here’s why.

Now, not December or April, is an opportune time.

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Tax Planning, Work Benefits, Your $ Your Independence, Retirement Planning, InvestingGlenn BrownTax Planning, Best Practice, Employee Benefits, Financial Planning, HSA, Health Savings Accounts, Health Plans, Investment Management, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, 401(k), Investing, Roth IRA, Roth Conversion, Recharacterization, tax planning, Your Money Your Independence, Tax-Loss Harvesting, Year-End