Personal finance

Cities and states across America have been offering money as an incentive to attract more residents.

News4’s Susan Hogan explains what to know about negotiating down your medical debt, what to do if it goes to collections agencies and more.

A credit freeze for a child, called a Protected Consumer Freeze, is a free service to protect your child’s credit without impacting their future credit scores. Here’s what you need to know.

How’s your credit score? Are you saving enough for retirement? What about your student debt? These are all basic financial questions, but many people don’t know who to ask. But if you’re a D.C. resident, you can get financial counseling from a certified professional — and it’s free. Joel Jacobs is getting ready to graduate from law school, and...

If you’re a D.C. resident, you can get financial counseling from a certified professional — and it’s free. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

The Biden administration is moving to ban medical debt from credit reports.

Self-made billionaire Diane Hendricks’ fortune comes from Wisconsin-based roofing supplies company ABC Supply, which she co-founded with husband Ken Hendricks.

In several states, a six-figure income qualifies as ‘middle class,’ per GoBankingRate’s analysis. Here are the middle-class income ranges for every state.

Wade says that it took him more than half a decade in the NBA “to even start to understand” how to manage his millions. 

Carter Osborne left his PR job to focus on his college admissions tutoring side hustle. Here’s how he built his business into a lucrative full-time gig.

Audrey Finocchiaro and Sam Lancaster nearly gave up on The Nitro Bar. Now, their coffee business brings in $4.5 million a year across Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

U.S. House representatives and co-chairs of the congressional Financial Literacy and Wealth Creation Caucus Joyce Beatty and Young Kim are hosting a free financial education resource fair for National Financial Literacy Month. News4’s Tommy McFly spoke with Congresswoman Beatty about it.

You don’t have to live on the coasts to make a solid income, but it may help.

Lewis Hamilton is ‘serious’ about exploring his passions outside of racing.

Budgeting often gives a sense of deprivation. There are ways to reframe the exercise more positively, experts said.

The Treasury Department has made the new clean vehicle tax credit much easier to obtain this year.

It’s not easy to convert a shed from Costco or Amazon into a livable space, says Precious Price, who built a tiny home in her backyard and now advises others.

“Stop believing these 3 myths,” writes entrepreneur Ryan Hogue, if you want to be successful at starting a passive income stream or a side hustle.

If your utility bill is due and you’re struggling to keep up with payments, there are some government grants that can assist you.

News4 Consumer Reporter Susan Hogan shares programs that can help get your bills under control.