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The Ramsey Show

The Underwhelming Math Behind Credit Card Points (Hour 3)

The Ramsey Show

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Self-improvement, Education, Business, Investing

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

George Kamel & Kristina Ellis answer your questions and discuss: Using credit card points to pay off a mortgage, Update on student loan provision in the Secure Act 2.0, Selling a truck to pay off the house, Knowing which credit card to pay off first. Dealing with overdrafts. Have a question for the show? Call 888-825-5225 Weekdays from 2-5pm ET Want a plan for your money? Find out where to start: https://bit.ly/3nInETX Listen to all The Ramsey Network podcasts: https://bit.ly/3GxiXm6 Learn more about your ad choices. https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy

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0:01.8

Live from the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions.

0:31.5

solutions broadcasting from the pods moving in storage studio. It's the Ramsey show where

0:36.4

America hangs out to have a conversation about your life and your money. I'm your host

0:41.0

George Campbell join this hour by best-selling author Christina Ellis and it's a free

0:45.4

call at AAA 825-5225. If you need some help, you're at a crossroads, you need a second

0:52.3

or third opinion. Maybe you just need some confidence that what you're doing is the right

0:57.1

thing. Maybe you need someone to talk you off the ledge of a terrible decision. That's

1:00.4

one of my favorite things to do is to help you avoid some stupid tax. We are here for

1:04.4

you America and Carl is kicking us off in Washington, DC. Carl, welcome to the show. How

1:10.2

you doing? I'm doing great. Thank you. Awesome. How can we help today?

1:14.2

Well, I have a question. I'm working on paying off my house right now and one of the things

1:20.2

I was considering doing I have and my credit card a little bit over two million points.

1:26.7

So somewhere around $23,000 that I could get cash. I think it's a new check. So I was thinking

1:33.0

about, yeah, I was thinking about cashing that in and then putting that towards the principle

1:38.0

of my house. So what do you guys think about that? I think it's a great plan. I mean, if

1:43.7

you already have the points, what did it take you to get two million points? I'm just curious.

1:47.8

Well, it's a meal. It's a meal on time. Is this a lifetime of credit card spending to

1:52.6

get two million points? Probably about 15 years or something like that. Wow. Do you have

2:01.7

any debt right now other than the house? Not really. Not really. What do you mean not

2:08.3

really, Carl? You can't leave us hanging on like that. I don't have a credit card that

2:11.5

I pay off every once. Okay. And out of me is about it. Okay. So what does this conversion

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