Corrections Policy

Personal finance content is full of numbers, rules, and rates that change over time or that we can simply get wrong. Here's how we handle it when that happens.

If you spot an error

Tell us. The fastest way is our contact page — include the article and, if you can, what looked wrong and why. We read every message that comes in.

How we fix it

Factual errors (a wrong number, an outdated rule stated as current, a broken or incorrect source link) are corrected in the article directly as soon as we can verify the fix. If the error was material — meaning it could have led someone to a wrong decision — we update the article's "last updated" date and note what changed.

Typos and small wording fixes are corrected without a separate note, since they don't affect what the article is telling you to do.

Rates and figures that were correct when published but have since changed (interest rates, contribution limits, and similar) aren't treated as "errors" — that's expected drift, which is why time-sensitive articles carry a "last updated" date and a note to verify current numbers before acting. We do periodically revisit high-traffic articles to refresh these where they've gone meaningfully stale.

What we won't do

We won't quietly edit an article to reverse a substantive claim or recommendation without noting that a change was made — see oureditorial policy for how we handle "last updated" notes on material changes.