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@kjc48 Thank you for your comments. My wife has a masters in education and taught 40 years. Before me she was a widow who easily managed her own affairs and amassed thousands in savings on a teacher's salary. Fortunately I've set almost everything on auto billpay and she shows no interest in bills, except she panics when our dentist sends a "balance due" email after insurance pays their part. She would never be able to get into an online account and the last time she tried to write a check, she needed my help to complete it. So I'm lucky there. My wife is on no medications for dementia since there is so little evidence for significant benefit, but I understand the desire desire and reason for trying the limited "treatments" available.
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@wctdoc1943 We're mostly on bill pay too, so I don't know why my husband is going into the accounts - and going into the bank statement, and paying it again. Yes, the payment goes to principal, but it's a double pay on $ we don't have.
He has this system or so he thinks, that he checks off in his folder, everything that has been made by month. It gives him something to do, as long as he doesn't resend payments. I'll have to figure this one out, as I hate to change the passwords again where he has no access. I just have to have a better way of what I say to him so he doesn't think I'm taking the bills away from him. It's got more to do with letting him okay, still go through his checking process BUT anything outside of auto pay, I pay vs. him.
Thanks for responding.....Karla