Cash in: 12 ways to earn extra money online

If you want to make a little spending money from home or earn a full-time salary, now's the time — especially if you have a computer. Here, Women's Day magazine reveals how the Internet can add to your income and how to know which businesses are legitimate. Money - Magazine - Home - Personal Finance - Money Management

More Money: 5 Ways to Earn Extra Cash In Your Spare Time

More Money: 5 Ways to Earn Extra Cash In Your Spare Time

Decision to buy extra years of service toward retirement is a sound move

Q: In 2008, I retired at age 60 with a government pension. My agency offered the option of buying extra years of service. After weighing the advantages, I shifted about $116,000 from a tax-deferred account to buy five extra years of service credit toward retirement. The “multiplier’’ for retirement was 3 percent, which gave me an immediate additional income of ... Retirement - Pension - Business ...

SCOTT BURNS: Buying extra years of service in government pension plans

I would like your opinion of a decision I made a few years ago. Is it a good investment to purchase "permissive time" in a government pension plan? Can you talk a bit about when it might be a good choice to purchase extra service time, and when it is not a good choice?

Opinion: Revamp Tax System to Encourage People to Make Charitable Donations

Julian Le Grand, a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, says that taxpayers could be given the choice to pay 1 percent extra income tax to a specific charity automatically. Under his plan, people would have to choose to opt out of giving the money to a charitable cause.