In today’s Ask Farnoosh: Is lifestyle creep, the idea that your expenses grow as your income grows – a bad thing? A listener wants to know about resources for navigating your finances when disabled. Also: The truth about whole life insurance. Why it may be wiser to take out a term policy or simply invest in the stock market.

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