Olivia Peluso is an experienced journalist with over 1,500 published stories across personal finance, economics, and public policy. Pekic / Getty Images Tax refunds aren't free money. They're ...

My husband is 40 and I am 44. When we got married a year ago, I was aware that he had about $67,000 in student-loan debt as well as credit-card debt from living paycheck-to-paycheck. He never ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. True Tamplin is on a mission to bring financial literacy into schools. Debt is a widespread problem in the United States, with ...

Are you concerned about debt? It’s important to recognize this, but at the same time, you may have more ways of gaining control of your debt situation than you had realized. To begin with, not all ...