Personal Finance Daily: Company holiday parties are (sort of) back this year and this hidden wrinkle in Social Security can help you decide when to file for benefits

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Company holiday parties are (sort of) back this year — and the decision on whether to host one ‘may have more resonance than ever’

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Weekend reads: this hidden wrinkle in Social Security can help you decide when to file for benefits

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Pharrell Williams Takes Another Spin at Selling His Hollywood Hills Home

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‘Like a heavy anchor, he’s taken his entire family down’: Operator of credit repair business and 7 relatives sentenced in $3.4 million identity fraud case

Michael Griffin crafted fake police reports to clean up clients’ bad credit and conspired with his family to run a sweeping credit card fraud at Lowe’s. Read More