Author: Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press

The IRS will begin accepting tax returns on Jan. 24, 2022. Here’s what to know about filing taxes, unemployment claims and child tax credit payments.

The average 30-year rate was 3.08% in November but shot up to 3.54% by mid-January. The speed is a bit startling, but so was the spike in inflation.

The new My GM Rewards Card is designed to drive GM car and truck sales and to reward loyal customers with nearly instant point redemption.

Although the IRS will start accepting returns on Jan. 24, you may not get a refund until mid-February – especially if you got child tax credit money.

What many families might not realize is that monthly child tax credit payments last year were to represent only half of a family’s estimated credit.

Student loan bills, higher prices for groceries, and uncertainty about the child tax credit all could cut into family budgets in 2022.

Some savers may want to ‘double-up,’ if you will and buy I Bonds before year end. Inflation-indexed savings bonds gain more interest as prices go up.

The money will stop unless Congress passes President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better package, which is currently stalled in the Senate.

Chase, the country’s biggest bank, is revising a series of practices as more political pressure and competition builds relating to overdraft fees.