Oh, the day you can hang up your career and ease into that status you’ve been working toward most of your adult life, the...
I was having a
conversation about retirement health insurance with an acquaintance of mine who
just retired. He’s a former corporate executive—an analytical person—who’s
always done his...
When do you want to retire? For a lot of Americans, the answer is just as soon as possible. And it’s no wonder. Only...
The old three-legged stool for retirement consisted of:
1) Pension (Company)
2) Social Security (Government)
3) Personal Savings (You)
Given less than 15% of Americans have pensions or...
One of the advantages of the Social Security system is the Survivor Benefit. Of the 65 million people receiving Social Security, approximately 6 million...
Hey! It’s just an IRA. What is there to know? You put money in and it’s a tax deduction, you get to take it...
Hear that sucking sound. It’s the rush of dollars coming out of the Social Security trust fund; you know, the fund set up to...
For Americans born in the 1970’s and beyond, these are unprecedented times. For most Americans, these are uncertain times. For retirees, whose income is...