Her identity was stolen in 2022, and she thought she had cleaned it up. She filed a police report, enrolled in Aura, worked through every fraudulent account she could find, and watched her credit recover over the following year. By the time things settled down, it felt like the worst of it was behind her….
His older sister is 40, lives in a rough rental in a rough neighborhood, and has never been particularly financially stable. He’s let her stay with him before and eventually realized that arrangement wasn’t healthy for his own life. The way she usually gets him to help financially is by bringing up her child, and…
Five years ago his stepdaughter, now 19, started dating a boy who used to hide in closets and under beds when his wife said he couldn’t spend the night, break into vacant apartments in their building, and eventually get arrested for trespassing. He lives about 100 miles away. His stepdaughter moved to another state after…
He and his wife paid $16,000 for two Delta One tickets to Italy, a trip he describes as one they rarely get the chance to take. He’s been a loyal Delta customer for years, flies first class exclusively, and spends a significant amount with the airline between business and personal travel. When they booked five…
A few years ago she found a wallet in a grocery store parking lot. It had cash, several cards, and the owner’s ID inside. She stood there for a moment knowing exactly what the right thing to do was, and then she put the wallet in her bag and walked to her car. She wasn’t…
She opened a Roth IRA decades ago, hasn’t contributed in years, and listed her husband as the primary beneficiary. Recently she received the standard five-year account review letter and noticed something she hadn’t put there. Two contingent beneficiaries had been added to the account, a man identified by initials and a woman identified by initials,…
