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Kimberly Palmer, of Nerdwallet, said tax season is more overwhelming than usual for a lot of people. According to Palmer, here are some of this year's big issues for taxpayers: Stimulus checks. Are they taxable income? The answer is no. Those checks will not impact your taxes. What about unemployment benefits? "In general with unemployment benefits, you are paying taxes. You certainly are paying federal taxes and the rules by state vary but good news here in California, we don't pay state taxes on those benefits." Many unemployed workers picked up gig work this year. If you're one of them, he...

He almost threw in the towel, until he stumbled on a company called People Clerk, which pegs itself as a "small claims assistant." Attorney Camila Lopez came up with the idea after friends and family kept asking for advice about their own disputes. "It was constant, every week," said Lopez. "I was like 'Wow, another fender bender, a security deposit." People Clerk doesn't offer legal advice; instead, it guides you through the entire process. It helps you prepare the lawsuit, file it, serve the defendant, and prepare your evidence for the hearing. "One of the most common mistakes that we've se...

Here's how Dossett said Macklock told her the program worked: She would stop paying her credit card bills, even let them go to collections; she'd make a monthly payment to Macklock instead; when the company collected enough money from Dossett, it would start paying off her creditors, at a negotiated, reduced amount. Dossett said after two years in the program, Macklock told her all her creditors had been paid. "Everything was done, we did our job," said Dossett. But recently, Dossett said an old credit card company dinged her credit, saying it wrote off an unpaid debt - one Macklock was suppo...

Fraudsters continue to steal money from unemployed Californians, by swiping it from their EDD debit cards. This is leaving people who need the money most – often penniless. But one lawmaker says she has a simple solution that could prevent a lot of this fraud, while lawyers are demanding change right now.

Despite fierce paranoia, Andy decided to keep the building and has spent the past nine months quietly working away transforming the inside of the Hammerton Street venue. Ships and Giggles Burnley will be similar in look and feel to its Preston namesake, where Andy hit the national headlines last year when he began selling penny meals in response to the Government's Covid restrictions. "After the first fire at MACs I said I was done. I wanted to get away from nightlife and the industry completely. It hurt me a lot. A guy got in touch and said he would take it off my hands. I said that's fine....