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By law, you have a right to obtain a free credit report once a year from each of the three large credit bureaus. Obtaining and monitoring your reports can help you spot unauthorized activity and find and correct errors (and maybe even improve your credit score). You can ask for all three reports at once, [...]

The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) has issued a proposed rule to respond to the continuing problem of misleading “credentials” used to market to seniors. Comments on the rule are due by December 9. See our most recent post on this problem.
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If you’d like to know more about the often-confusing and regularly-misrepresented Medicaid program (called Medi-Cal in California), check out the new Toolkit from the Alliance for Health Reform.

Today’s Los Angeles Times real estate section provides an update on the transfer-on-death deed debate we reported on last August. The article, written by Chip Jacobs, describes crusader Mary Pat Toups’ quest for the do-it-yourself, revocable way to transfer homes and other real estate in California. It also spells out concerns raised by opponents of [...]