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Do you feed your family and your vehicle with Kroger food and gasoline? If so, let’s hope that you put food on the table and gasoline in the vehicle, as any other combination could cause a problem. Also, you can get points for doing so, which is probably why you are here.

To earn points at Kroger, you’ll need a Kroger Plus card. This is just like any other grocery store credit card out there. You’ll have to fill out an application and they’ll give you a card on the spot. Sounds easy, huh?

Are Kroger Gas Rewards A Good Deal or a Sham?

When using your Kroger Plus card, you’ll earn 1 point per dollar spent on items in Kroger stores. It is imp

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Its been a while since weve posted anything on chargebacks on our blog. In fact, I think this must be our longest chargeback-free spell. So I was hugely relieved to find out that the good people at Card Hub have published a report on the controversial issue, in the process giving me a perfect excuse to dive into the subject once more. And I will gladly take full advantage of the opportunity.

To compile their report, Card Hub has relied on the answers of three of the four major U.S. credit card networks and six of the biggest U.S. issuers. Visa had declined participation in the survey, we are told, as had done Chase and U.S.

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Home construction permits filed by government-reported builders increased considerably in February, providing a sign that the housing market could be moving in the right direction. However, some wonder if recovery is truly on the horizon, with actual housing starts slipping a bit in the same month.

Home Construction Permits Jump to 3-Year High

As home builders push through building season, which begins in January, they’re finding good reason to file permits, according to new figures from the government.

The number of permits filed jumped to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 717,000 in February. Th

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Identity thieves respect no one — not even the recently deceased. In fact, a person’s identity may be more susceptible to ID theft in the months following death than when they were living.

The problem is increasing. In one example, federal authorities say, a group of sophisticated identity thieves managed to steal nearly $4 million by filing bogus tax returns using the names and Social Security numbers of 1,900 other people, most of them deceased. In other cases, thieves have been known to start stealing identities the moment people die in a hospital.

The Internal Revenue Service, at the request of Scripps Howard News Service, in 2011 revealed that tax filers improperly submitted 350,000 returns on dead Americans in the prior tax season. Th

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NerdWallet’s study of big banks confirmed last week that while every big bank has a basic checking account offering (one to be exact), banks have been actively targeting the “mass affluent” with numerous higher-tier, premium account offerings. In th

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