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Railroad Retirement Benefits

My husband worked for Amtrak for 40 years and retired at age 62. He passed away at 69. When I..

what to do with a 1M$ gift from your mother ?

a friend of mine is 42,and is expecting a large gift or inheritance of like 1 M $.His mother is..

403b account concerns about employer

Terry I’m have a issue with my company putting my $ into my 403b account there’s a lot to it..

Purchasing Tbills in a revocable trust using ID Me

Have had all my Tbills in my trust. Don’t know how to do this with the new ID Me requirement.

Savings

Grandparent of a hs grandaughter who will be traveling to europe this spring with the school. We want to help..

Home repairs

My home of 50 years is in need of updating and repairs to 3 bathroom and kitchen. Home is owned..

Clever scams .

Got letter that said I need to pay more tax to Illinois but I already paid in April. Taxes were..

IRS Refund for a Deceased Parent

I filed (by mail) in late Feb 2026 a 1040 return for the portion of 2025 that my mother was..

ACATS Fraud!

I just read about this in the newspaper, I always try to listen to you on WGN radio so maybe..

Savings

Grandparent that has approximatly 7-8 months to want to help finance a grandchilds trip to europe with her hs school..

Scams: you advised to never wire transfer money to anyone so what do you do insteadvia banks

You advised to not wire transfer money using banks. But what an you do instead to avoid a scam??

Debt passing 40 trillion

Hi, how concerned should we be about the national debt? any safeguards I should take if this goes unchecked? what..

Personal loan

Where is the best place to get a personal loan for extensive dental work costing 30k?

Dr. Bob

When will Dr. Bob Froelich be on the noon business hour , WGN. Thank you

Question regarding State of IL tax return

Terry: H&R Block has e-filed my federal and state returns for years. This year, I was told I would receive..

Chaitable deduction from 401k

I have $700,000 in my 401k and do not itemize on my tax return. I have $1500 in chairtable donations..

IRS Refund

We sent in our income tax form to the fed govt. on 1/29/26 and it was accepted by the IRS...

Federal tax refund

Hi Terry, 2025 was the first year both my husband and I had income from our retirements. We were very..

IRS tax return

My husband and I filed our income tax form and we have over $17,000.00 owed to us (my husband over..

tranferring large sum of cash from Europe to US

Hypothetical inquiry, Terry. I have a substantial number of entries in a charity raffle supporting amateur athletics in Ireland. the..

money

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