High yield savings account
A savings account paying a competitive rate, usually online.
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Whole life insurance: what it is, who uses it, and the arithmetic nobody shows you. A life insurance policy that also holds a savings account inside it. It is sold to almost everyone and it fits a few people well. This page explains how it works and how to tell which you are, and it never tells you what to buy.
The health savings account: three tax breaks and one gate. The account people describe with the most excitement and understand the least. It does something no other account does, and there is a gate in front of it that many people cannot walk through.
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- ABLE account
A special savings account created by federal law that lets people with disabilities save money without losing government benefits or paying tax on the growth.
- accounting software
This is a program that records the money moving through a business, such as sales, bills, and payments. It sorts each item into a category and builds reports showing what the business earned and spent.
- Custodial account (UTMA/UGMA)
An account you manage for a child that becomes theirs outright at adulthood.
- health savings account
A special bank account the government allows you to open so you can save money specifically for medical costs and get tax benefits while doing it.
- high deductible health plan
A type of health insurance where you pay more of your own medical bills upfront before the insurance company starts helping you pay.
- mental accounting
This is the habit of treating money differently depending on where it came from or what you plan to use it for. For example, people may spend a tax refund freely but guard money in a savings jar, even though a dollar is worth the same either way.
- retirement account
A special savings account the government created to help people save money for when they stop working. It comes with tax benefits that a regular bank account does not have.
- Savings rate
Share of income you save. The lever that matters most early on.
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