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CURRENCY EXCHANGE

 

www.bank-banque-canada.ca/en/exchform.htm

Up to date currency exchange rates for every country

 

FOR CHILDREN

 

www.4kids.org

A great educational website for kids. You should be able to find a weekly issue in your state's larger newspapers, then these back issues appear in the website.

This website has links to other sites on just about any subject imaginable, also helps kids with their homework.

 

COLLEGE PLANNING & FINANCING

 

www.wiredscholar.com

This site shows you how to Finance a College Education through Government Loan Programs.

 
 

www.collegesavings.org

This site is a College Savings Plan Network. Below are just a few highlights of the site.

  • A guide to understanding the 529 plans in in all 50 states.
  • Saving for a college education
  • Scholarship Search
  • How to make out the FAFSA form
  • SAT preparation
  • Apply to a college
  • Explains President Bush's federal " No Child Left Behind" program.
 

INSURANCE RATING COMPANIES

 

www.ambest.com

Check the ratings and strength of your Insurance Annuity and Mutual Fund Companies. Is your Insurance or Annuity Company going to make it. You can find out by clicking on this website.

  • Read how they determine their ratings
  • Look up the different rating definitions
  • Sign up and input the company name that you are interested in - and bang, the rating is there.
 
 

www.moodys.com

This is another excellent rating company. Each one of these companies has their own expertise in how they rate an Insurance company' s strength.

Click on the following in this order and you will get your ratings.

  • Click on "Look up Ratings"
  • Click on "About Moody's" at the top of the page.
  • Click on "Rating Definitions"
  • Click on "Insurance Financial Strength Ratings" under Moody's Ratings - Study this section and gain some knowledge.
  • At the top of the page you will find a search box, on the drop down button , go to "Insurance"
  • Click on "Insurance Financial Strength Ratings" which you will find at the right.
  • You will find a long list here.
 

HELPFUL GOVERNMENT SITES

 

www.irs.gov

The IRS website will provides for both Federal and State Tax forms and publications and also provides a wealth of tax and other related information.

 
 

www.pueblo.gsa.gov

This site is a Federal Citizens Information Center. A site geared strictly to the Consumer. A consumer can retrieve information on just about every subject imaginable.

 
 

www.house.gov

This is the official site of the United States House of Representatives.

 
 

www.senate.gov

This is the official site of the United States Senate.

 
 

www.ssa.gov

The official website of the Social Security Administration.

Get all of yoru SS questions answered here.

Supplemental Security Income program (SSI) is also explained

 
 

www.medicare.gov

The official Government site for people with Medicare and also for those who wish to find out about Medicare.

 
 

www.cms.hhs.gov

This site not only addresses Medicare, but also Medicaid. A very useful site.

 
 

www.pbgc.gov/benefits.htm

The Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp is a federal agency that protects defined benefit pension plans. It does not protect defined -contribution plans such as 401K's.

The plan protects the retirement income of about 44 million Americans

 
 

www.bls.gov/cpi

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) program produces monthly data on changes paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.

 
 

www.federalbudget.com

National Debt awareness center

Contains many other useful sites about the budget and the deficit.

 
 

www.freddiemac.com

A stockholder-owned corporation chartered by Congress in 1970 to create a continuous flow of funds to mortgage lenders in support of homeownership and rental housing.

 
 

www.nutrition.gov

A useful site which contains all kinds of information about nutrition and dietary guidelines.

 
 

www.savingsbonds.gov

The official source for Savings Bond information

 
 

www.fanniemae.com

Supplier of conventional home mortgage funds in terms of assets and issues debt. Fannie Mae helps families achieve the American Dream of homeownership.

 
 

www.cdc.gov

This is the government site for Disease Control and Prevention. The lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people.

 
 

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