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Is it a Tree or Four Elephants?
One of my all-time favorite Sesame Street characters—even now—is “Lefty”, the fast talking, trenchcoat-wearing street salesman. In one...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jan 15, 20195 min read
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Taxes: What could be simpler?
“In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” is a quote, popularly attributed to Benjamin Franklin...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jan 10, 20195 min read
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Build Your Best Team
NFL Coach Firings: Who’s gone, openings and candidates (January 2, 2019, 10:31 AM). Meet the 2019 Draft Quarterback Class: Everything you...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jan 3, 20194 min read
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Is there a magic Number for funding my Special Needs Trust?
The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think about the Rest of Your Life (by Lee Eisenberg, and not to be confused with a ridiculous...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Dec 18, 20185 min read
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Hurry Up and Wait
The Wall Street Journal on 12/11/18 had a fun story on the creativity of pet tortoises, particularly when it comes to escaping their...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Dec 13, 20184 min read
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Two Outa Three Ain't Bad!
Some of you may have seen a clichéd-but-true sign that someone posted on LinkedIn a few days ago. It reads: We have three kinds of...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Dec 3, 20184 min read
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Just what is "Spend down," anyway?
Fairness does not mean that everyone gets the same thing. It means that everyone gets what they need. –Rick Riordan (1964- ), author of...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Nov 27, 20184 min read
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Give Thanks!
The sky over Illinois, my home state, is mainly grey in the late-autumn. This year, it seems like snow and snow clouds have come a bit...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Nov 21, 20183 min read
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Work for Free? Who me?
In the novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, the protagonist tricks his friends into doing a large chore for him for free. The story...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Nov 15, 20184 min read
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Trust Issues
“So-and-so can’t see the forest for the trees”, is a colorful way of describing a person who focuses on a particular detail of a...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Oct 31, 20184 min read
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Rep Payee
The truism “With great power comes great responsibility”, defined the life of Peter Parker as Spider-Man. Taking responsibility for...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Oct 24, 20184 min read
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Employment First for People with Disabilities
But I say to you that when you work, you fulfill a part of the earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born…Work is...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Oct 18, 20184 min read
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Who You Gonna Call?
The 80s featured some really good movies and some rather goofy ones. I’ll leave it up to you, the reader, to decide which description...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Oct 9, 20184 min read
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Learn What You Don't Know
When I was in fifth grade, my best friend and I used to play a game called “But what you don’t know is…” You could play it entirely...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Oct 5, 20185 min read
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Kick That Football and Find Your Work!
Those of us of a certain age remember the agonizing saga of Charlie Brown, Lucy Van Pelt and the football. Periodically in the...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Sep 26, 20184 min read
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You've Got a Ticket to Work. (And You Should Care!)
In past blogs, I have written a lot about Work Incentives offered by Social Security and Medicaid to workers with disabilities. The Work...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Sep 17, 20183 min read
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A Life Insurance Two-fer
Labor Day celebrates the working person and, it might seem to a visiting alien, the fact that all that money we earn from working needs...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Sep 5, 20183 min read
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Life Insurance Lego®
If you have a child with a disability, you very probably need to consider permanent life insurance rather than just term insurance. This...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Aug 29, 20184 min read
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Craft the Right Insurance Plan
My son loves to play Minecraft®. It’s one of his video games to which I object the least because it does encourage creativity. If only...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Aug 22, 20184 min read
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Take it to the Max!
Everyone wants to obtain the maximum 100% of anything for which they are legitimately eligible. A popular discount chain used to run a...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Aug 13, 20183 min read
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