Editorial & Review Policy — Freelancer Finance

Topics come from freelancer problems, not advertiser requests. If an advertiser or affiliate ever wanted a topic covered, that alone would not get it covered.

The workflow

1. Research — regulator and IRS sources first for tax and limit figures, not roundups of roundups.
2. Draft — in plain, specific language, with the maths shown.
3. Maths check — a second person re-runs every worked example.
4. Fact-check — sources dated, figures given a check date.
5. Qualified review where required — tax and retirement pages go through a qualified reviewer (role and process; no person is named until a real reviewer is appointed).
6. Compliance sign-off — then publish. Then scheduled re-check.

Updates

A guide is re-checked when a limit, rate, or rule it cites changes, and its last-checked date is updated. A guide still presenting an old limit as current is a failure, not a backlog item.

Advertising separation

Advertisers and affiliates do not review, edit, or approve editorial content. Full stop. Ad placeholders in this build are labelled boxes with no ad code — they are layout planning, not revenue.

Human language

Every page is written to sound like a knowledgeable person talking to a freelancer, not a template. Specific situations (a $0 month, a late invoice), short answers first, varied sentences, and no filler phrasing. A draft that reads robotic gets rewritten, not published.

Page status: shell with real structure, 25 October 2026. Final wording is owned by Editorial and Compliance — this shell is not a substitute for their sign-off, and no page in this set claims a credential, review, or contact route that does not exist yet.