{"id":170804,"date":"2026-04-20T13:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170804\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:36:19","slug":"ready-to-spend-your-tax-refund-heres-what-experts-say-you-should-do-with-the-money-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170804\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to spend your tax refund? Here&#8217;s what experts say you should do with the money first."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                With the average tax refund topping more than $3,300 this filing season, many Americans are facing the same question: What&#8217;s the smartest way to spend it? A big splurge or shopping spree may sound tempting, but financial experts say treating that check as a tool rather than a bonus can pay off long after the money is spent.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the average tax refund topping more than $3,300 this filing season, many Americans are facing the same&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23054,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-170804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-consumer-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}