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Would you rather be a millionaire or have safe, reliable passive income for life? That’s the difficult choice that many lucky lottery winners are frequently faced with. While the prospect of a seven-figure payout is tempting, 20-year-old Brenda Aubin-Vega from Quebec, Canada recently decided to take the recurring payment option instead. After scratching off three piggy bank symbols on her Gagnant à Vie ticket, Aubin-Vega was stunned to discover she had just bagged the game’s top prize. “I couldn’t believe my eyes! I checked my ticket over and over again,” she told Yahoo News Canada (1). After calling her dad...

A woman adjusts the thermostat on her radiator. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Marcus BrandtAfter a meeting late on Wednesday evening, the German government managed to agree on a package of relief measures for households struggling with energy costs, including cut-price transport tickets and a one-off energy allowance. The new measures, which include a one-off €300 energy allowance for workers, should offer quick and unbureaucratic relief for low- and middle-income earners, the government said on Thursday. When the allowance comes in, all employed persons liable to income tax will be paid a one-time flat-rate energy allowance of €300 as a...

I am new at this so don't fry me too badly. I have lurked for 6 years and decided to join today. I don't know if all are aware but the congress and senate has passed a pension plan reform bill. They are presently starting to discuss the differences to provide a final bill. Summaries of the bill can be found at www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index/html. Look for sepproposal or sepproposal2 to find the details of the new reform bill. It is expected to be completed sometime in March. The reform will allow for business to underfund their respective pension plans and thus...