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    • Saving for Your Retirement
      • Today’s Planning for Tomorrow’s Well Being
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        • Understanding Key Factors that may Impact your Retirement: Compounding Your Rate of Return on Your Pension Savings (2)
        • Understanding Key Factors that may Impact your Retirement: Inflation (1)
      • What are Private Pension Retirement Products?
        • Buying Private Pension Retirement Products
        • Obligations of your Private Pension Retirement Product’s Provider
        • Managing Risk in a Private Pension Retirement Product
    • Your Social Security Pension
      • What is the Social Security contribution scheme?
        • Social Security Contributions
        • The Contributory Retirement Pension
        • Widows / Survivors Pensions
        • Invalidity Pension
        • Retirement Pension? Age Pension? Service Pension? Second Pension? Third Pension? Let us define
        • “Self-Employed” as defined in the Social Security Act
        • Pension payment dates for 2021
        • The Guaranteed National Minimum Level ( GNML) of Pension
        • The Cost of Living Allowance: How it affects your income and your pension rate.
      • Finding out what your Pension Income is on Retirement
      • Maltese People Working Abroad and Third Country Nationals Working In Malta
        • Maltese people paying social security contributions in Malta while working abroad
        • What are my Social Security Pension Rights as a Third Country National Citizen Working in Malta
      • Gaps in your pension contributions
        • How you can fill gaps in your pension contributions
        • Right to credits for the calculation of your pension income
        • Child credits for child rearing
        • Study Credits
      • How you can boost your pension income if you work beyond 61 years
        • The Pensions % Increase Measure
        • Employment beyond Pension age – Age 65
      • Grants and Bonuses
        • Senior Citizen Grant
        • Deficiency Contributory Bonus
        • Government Bonuses
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Author Archives: ĠEMMA Team

Student lifehacks to control your daily spend!

Children and Teenagers, Family, Managing your money, Youths and Young AdultsBy ĠEMMA TeamMay 18, 2022Leave a comment

One of the biggest challenges when managing your finances is to spend responsibly and spend less. Self-control may be hard to practice but it will help you manage your money so much better. 1. Store Hacks Resist impulse buying. Ask yourself these questions: Do I need it? Do I need it today? Can I get…

Working too hard – and still losing money?

Family, Managing your money, Youths and Young AdultsBy ĠEMMA TeamMay 13, 2022Leave a comment

You work too hard, you work long hours and still lose money instead of saving up? How come? We live in a culture that has a habit of making you feel guilty if you are not spending half your time at work. Yet have you ever stopped to think, whether working too hard makes you…

Saving Money Tips

Debt Management, Planning & BudgetingBy ĠEMMA TeamMay 11, 2022Leave a comment

“Why can’t I save money?” is probably one of the most asked questions to date. What is holding you back? Let’s break it down, shall we? Reason #1 You do not live on a budget. Without tracking where your money is going, you will end up dry by the end of the month with no…

Needs vs. Wants

Children and Teenagers, Family, General, Managing your money, Youths and Young AdultsBy ĠEMMA TeamMay 9, 2022Leave a comment

The difference between needs and wants may seem quite straightforward to adults but to the younger generations, the lines may be blurred. Prioritise your budget and take charge of your money. How do you do that? First things first. Identify where your money is going on a day-to-day basis. Once you start doing that, you…

Teens

Children and Teenagers, Family, Managing your money, Youths and Young AdultsBy ĠEMMA TeamMay 6, 2022Leave a comment

Finance may be the LAST thing on your mind. That is, until you get your first job and start thinking about buying that car you had your eyes on for a while, and, eventually, getting a place of your own. So, let’s start with some basic Rules of Thumb of money management that, we promise,…

Food For Thought – Spending less at Supermarkets

Family, Managing your money, Youths and Young AdultsBy ĠEMMA TeamMay 5, 2022Leave a comment

Living within your means is the key to good financial management. This requires a balancing act between your monthly income and monthly expenditure. Adjusting your income may be difficult in the short term when this is driven by your fixed salary. This would be your take home pay, that is, your salary once taxes and…

Watch out for your biases

Debt Management, Planning & BudgetingBy ĠEMMA TeamApril 22, 2022Leave a comment

Good money management requires an ability to plan ahead. Your spending is affordable as long as the stream of future incomes allows you to repay the debt which is incurred. Taking a loan makes sense when one is purchasing an asset whose useful life extends over a number of years. In this manner even the…

Cost of Living Increase

General, Managing your moneyBy ĠEMMA TeamApril 19, 2022Leave a comment

Cost of living increase, and in its abbreviated terms, COLA, adjusted yearly according to the yearly budget, is an increase in income to mitigate rising prices and to maintain a specific standard of living. The adjustment to the cost of living comes into effect in January of the following year. A full-time employee is entitled to the full increase,…

Financial Management For Couples

Family, General, Managing your money, Youths and Young AdultsBy ĠEMMA TeamApril 8, 2022Leave a comment

As an individual, what is affordable depends exclusively on your own income. First your needs have to be prioritised, and then the remaining income can be shared between spending on wants, maintaining a buffer for unexpected costs, and saving for old age. Additional considerations come into play when two persons form a couple. In this…

Buying a car

General, Managing your moneyBy ĠEMMA TeamMarch 15, 2022Leave a comment

Buying a car is exciting but it also brings other financial obligations with it. So before getting behind the wheel, think about other associated costs. Where to start? 1. Choose the right car for you Find a car that matches both your budget and driving habits. You may be able to find a used car…

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