According to a recent Pew Research Center report, 40% of adults worry they won’t have enough money to last through retirement. But how much is “enough”? Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates retirees spent an average of $59,616 a year in 2025, or a little less than $5,000 …
How close of an eye do you keep on your checking account — would you notice if $1 went missing? Most people think of financial fraud showing up as a large, unusual charge on their bank account, but it’s the little transactions that can actually be the biggest red flags. …
If you shop at Rite Aid, you could be owed as much as $10,000 from a recent $6.8 million class-action settlement. In a complaint filed in July 2024, plaintiffs alleged the pharmacy chain failed to protect them from a cyberattack that exposed the personal identifiable information, or PII, of over …
FICO is the scoring model most lenders use to check an applicant’s creditworthiness. A perfect FICO credit score is 850, but experts tell CNBC Select you don’t need to hit that target to qualify for the best credit cards, loans or interest rates. “If you’re at 760, or 780, you’re already …
If you recently received a salary increase or haven’t updated your income information with your credit card issuer in a while, you might qualify for a credit limit increase. By securing a higher credit limit, you’ll be giving yourself more spending power and keeping your credit utilization rate low — and …
The costs of the services mentioned below are up-to-date at the time of publication. Credit monitoring services can help protect your personal and financial information from hackers and identity theft. A credit monitoring service provides an additional alert system by watching over your credit, offering alerts, scanning the dark web …
In 2023, U.S. consumers lost more than $10 billion to fraud, according to the Federal Trade Commission, the highest amount ever recorded by the agency. That same year, the FTC logged more than a million cases of identity theft. Billing itself as an all-in-one digital safety solution, Aura offers identity theft protection, …