WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (KGO) -- How long should you keep your paperwork? Tax returns, and the like? The usual advice is seven years and some actually advise three years. And some, forever. Walnut Creek ...

Question: I have been helping my mother with sorting paperwork. Can you offer advice? Answer: I love paper: documents, mail, newspaper, magazines, etc. I love and enjoy reading it, and saving it. Do I ...

If you haven’t already opted to go paperless, you might be swimming in a flood of receipts, bills, pay stubs, tax forms and other financial documents. But it doesn’t have to be that way (you can go ...

Despite that, you still need to keep hard copies of certain financial, legal and other documents. From time to time, you might have to print out an online document or one you’ve saved on a computer or ...

Once tax season is over, it’s tempting to contemplate pushing every document into a shredder and going on your way until next year. However, prematurely disposing of your tax documents can have ...

It’s fine to get rid of monthly mortgage statements, but you should keep all your mortgage documents, including proof of title insurance and the promissory note, until your loan is paid off. Having ...

Even once your tax return is turned in, do not run any documents through the shredder just yet. You will want to hang on to certain items, such as tax forms and supporting paperwork, in case of an ...

The U.S. financial services system is one of the most heavily regulated in the world. Our federal and state governments have dozens of agencies that regulate and oversee financial markets and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WXIN/WTTV — In today’s world of hackers and ...

(WXIN/WTTV) — In today’s world of hackers and other cyber threats, we spend a lot of time talking about protecting usernames and passwords. However, there are still a lot of paper documents that are ...