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Liz Weston: When life blows up your well-laid plans

by Liz Weston of NerdWallet
| November 9, 2020 4:07 AM

Job loss, business failure, involuntary retirement, divorce, disability or the death of a breadwinner — these are just some of the ways our finances can force us to come up with a Plan B. That’s never as simple as downloading a list and ticking off completed assignments, however.

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