Lifestyle Budgeting
Lessons

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Understanding Your Paycheck

Setting up a Budget

Estimating Expenses

Recognizing Budget Problems

Cutting the Fat from your Budget

Calculating Your Housing Budget

Dealing with Debt

Staying Out of Debt

Coping with Taxes

Adapting Lifestyle to Paycheck

Understanding Your Paycheck

  1. Examine your gross pay
  2. Study the types of deductions
  3. Identify federal income tax deductions
  4. Identify Social Security deductions
  5. Identify state income tax deductions
  6. Identify local income tax deductions
  7. Identify retirement deductions
  8. Identify insurance deductions
  9. Identify miscellaneous deductions
  10. Examine your net pay