When you buy a home with an FHA loan and you don’t have at least 20% to pay, mortgage lenders ask you to pay an FHA mortgage insurance premium, or MIP, which protects them from losses if you can’t. not repay the loan. . FHA loans are attractive to some …
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“Insurance is important when income is low”
Insurance, like all sectors of the economy, has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. The major impact was on the premiums of certain branches of activity and on the premature deaths of people. While the lack of insurance awareness has kept many people from purchasing coverage, the coronavirus has …
Read More »Managing the SARS and SARS-CoV-2 Outbreaks in China from a Comparative Perspective
Since the start of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic – caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the world has been plunged into economic and social crises of a magnitude unprecedented in the last century. However, this is the third pandemic in recent times caused by …
Read More »Distributions of pensions, annuities, retirement schemes or profit sharing Definition
What is Form 1099-R: Pension, Annuity, Retirement or Profit Sharing Plan Distributions? Form 1099-R: Distributions From Pensions, Annuities, Retirement or Profit-Sharing Plans is an Internal Revenue System (IRS) tax form used to report distributions from annuities, profit sharing plans, retirement plans , IRA, insurance contracts or pensions.It deals specifically with …
Read More »Our young people, insurance and the future
Saturday February 13, 2021 / 08:10 / OpEd By Ekerete Ola Gam-Icon / Header Image Credit:Cpj.org Engaging young people in Nigeria is not for the faint hearted and financial service providers don’t know something that non-financial service providers don’t, and it’s because young people treat every service provider that they …
Read More »Lack of Covid data on people with intellectual disabilities “comes with a body count”
Peter Prater’s family weren’t thinking about covid-19 when the call came that he had been taken to hospital with a fever. It was April and the Tallahassee Development Center, where Prater lives, had not yet been diagnosed with covid. Prater, 55, with Down syndrome and diabetes, became the first known …
Read More »Billions of dollars for Medicaid expansion hanging before recalcitrant states
The new offer, included in a massive $ 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that House Democrats are pushing through committees this week, could help provide health coverage to more than 2 million Americans. They are falling through the cracks of government programs amid the pandemic and economic downturn. Most are …
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