Tag Archive: Paycheck

What is a W-4? Updating My W-4

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Anyone that has ever received a paycheck has noticed that the government takes a (massive) piece.  Your HR/Employer knows how much to withhold from each paycheck based partly on your W-4.  According to the IRS one would, Complete Form W-4 so that your employer can withhold the correct federal income tax from your pay. Consider…

A less than Expected Bonus – What should you do?

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I wasn’t going to write about this subject but why the heck not! As indicated in the left side bar, I work for a Fee Based Financial Planning firm, that being said we have clients that we don’t charge fees because of the compensation coming in somewhere else (i.e. money under management, premiums, sale of different…

Don’t Blindly Trust your Employer – Check your Check!

In the past I broken down my paycheck, and I just assumed all was good.  However, I found out otherwise!  I got called into the office of my Human Resource Person to go over the 2009 benefits package.  When she reviewed what I had paid this year thus far for medical coverage she was shocked,…