Money

There's more than 225 MILLION dollars of "unclaimed property" at the Maine State Treasurer's office. How much of it is yours?

If you make less than $50,000 per year and work more than 40 hours per week, you're going to see a big raise this year.

Maine is holding onto $12 million of other people's money and some of it could be yours. Here's how to find out.

The US Treasury wants to put a new person on the $10 bill. How about Yoda?!

Take off your shoes and empty your pockets.  Doesn't seem like you have much to lose and yet the amount of money we leave behind at airport security checkpoints is incredible and keeps rising. Travelers left more than $500,000 — almost all of it in loose change — at airport checkpoints last year, according to the Transportation Security Administration...

Happy April 15!  A recent survey shows that the average American is getting  just under $3000.00  as a refund. The retail federation hopes you'll buy yourself something nice. research shows that in this economy only about 7% will oblige...

If you get an official looking e-mail from the IRS claiming that they owe you money  but they need more information to process your return.  Delete it and report it! Fraudsters are sending out phony e-mails like this by the thousands making them look authentic but it is in virtually every case a ploy to steal your identity...

Recipients of Social Security benefits will see a slightly less than 2 percent cost-of-living increase next year, according to an estimate by the American Institute for Economic Research.

These days more credit card customers are paying their bills on time than they have over the course of the last decade. A report released earlier today by the American Bankers Association indicates that delinquencies on credit cards are currently at an 11-year low, with only 2.93 percent of credit accounts reported past due by 30 days or more. These figures come in substantially under the 3.91 per

It might seem almost impossible to operate in today’s economic world without the use of a bank account, but a new survey suggests that many Americans are actually doing it, opting to finance their daily lives with quick cash services and prepaid credit cards.