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Nationwide Energy Related Website

If you're looking for a website that lists money saving government incentives and rebates on energy related equipment, here is the link.

This description is on the website. "DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility and federal incentives and policies that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. Established in 1995 and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, DSIRE is an ongoing project of the N.C. Solar Center and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council."

Unclaimed Money In South Carolina

If you live in or have lived in South Carolina, here is a link to see if you might have some unclaimed funds being held for you. Just go to this link and enter your last or first and last name to do a search.

Recalled

Have you been recalled? Well you can check this website to see if you have. Recalls.gov is a gold mine of recall information. Recalls for Consumer Products, Motor Vehicles, Boats, Food, Medicine, Cosmetics and Environmental Products are all listed on this website. You can check the site whenever you want to look for specific items or recently recalled items. You can also subscribe to their email notification services. For example, in the motor vehicle section, you can enter information about your automobile and receive an email notice if there is ever a recall associated with your particular vehicle.

New Credit Card Laws

New credit card laws became effective on February 22, 2010. I missed it and maybe you did, too. The reason these new laws didn't receive much fanfare is that they're nothing to brag about. Credit cards have long been a way to rip consumers off and these new laws don't help the consumer all that much. I used to use credit cards frequently and I paid the bills without much notice to the interest rate I was paying. Then one day I decided to take control of my financial situation. I looked at my credit card bills and was shocked at the rates. I started that day to pay large enough payments to pay the cards off quickly. Once they were paid off, I never carried a balance on them again. When I did use them for warranty purposes, I would go home and send a check to pay the full balance the same day. There are many ways to get in trouble financially and credit cards are something to fear. Here is a link to information about the new credit card laws.

Incredible List of Consumer Product Recalls

I read in the news today that a GE coffee maker is being recalled. It apparently is a fire hazard. Well, I looked at the US Consumer Product Safety Commission web site to see if I could find it. What a shock!!!! There is a huge list of recalls. Why didn't all of those products make the news like the GE coffee maker? Check out this list of recalls here.

Tennessee Floods Disaster Assistance

The floods in western Tennessee have been devastating. Nashville has been hit hard and there are a number of western Tennessee counties that have been declared disaster areas. Here is a link to a web site where you can get help if you were affected by the floods.

Gulf Oil Spill Disaster Assistance

It's May 19, 2010. The disaster that is consuming the news these days is the oil flowing from the well in the Gulf off the Louisiana coast. This will have a huge impact on the environment for quite some time. Many people are and will be affected by it. Here is a link that will help if you have been affected by the disaster.

Choosing a Medicare Plan

If you’re new to Medicare, it can seem complicated. There are a number of choices you have to make. There’s the Original Medicare Plan, Medicare Health Plans, Medicare Prescriptions Drug Plans and Medigap (Medicare Supplement Insurance) Policies. Medicare has a web site that allows you to compare all the options and choose the plan that is best suited to your situation. It is also possible to use this site to compare your existing policies with new policies during the renewal period each year. Here is the link to the Medicare web site.