Medicare is a lifesaver for most retirees who need affordable health coverage after age 65. However, it’s very different from the health insurance plan you may have participated in as an employee benefit. For example, Medicare doesn’t provide coverage for some essential items that are often delivered through employer-sponsored health plans. If you’re nearing age
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You might be able to save yourself tens of thousands of dollars by reshuffling positions between taxable and tax-sheltered accounts. By William Baldwin, Forbes Staff First decision for investors: allocation. What percentages of your net worth do you want in stocks, bonds, cash, exotic things? Second decision, following right behind: location. Where do you put
For most people, there is a belief that aging well is a matter of luck. In their minds, how they age depends on how long their parents or grandparents lived and that’s about it. However, research tells us, that simply isn’t all there is to know. Movement of our bodies In our history, parents and
Early in the new year, a severe winter storm warning for our area resulted in the closure of my grandsons’ schools, cancellation of business meetings, and a grocery store run on milk and essentials. What happened? Instead of blizzard-like conditions and a foot of snow, we got three inches of rain and mid-30s temperatures. I
While the inflation rate has been easing downward, retirees’ budgets are still being stretched pretty thin. Over the past few years, above-average inflation has meant significant Social Security cost-of-living adjustments. Will this trend continue? How big of a Social Security COLA will retirees get in 2025? What Was The Social Security COLA For 2024? The
Whether you’re trying to get rich quickly or slowly, there are a plethora of playbooks out there about saving, investing, real estate, business building, and side hustles for you to follow. While there is certainly plenty of advice that is garbage—especially on the get-rich-quick front—there are many, many paths to financial success. That is, if
A call to scrap tax breaks for retirement plans and use the savings to shore up Social Security has some people in the financial services industry up in arms. But the question is not whether the U.S. retirement savings system is costly, complex, and ineffective at boosting savings. It’s all of those things. The only
You might have read that Social Security might raise its retirement age as a means to help fix the program’s financial challenges. If this happens, how could it affect you? The answer is…we don’t know for sure, and it will most likely depend on your age. However, we can gain insights by looking at how
Most people, when asked, say they want to “age in place” at home for as long as possible. When an elder is in failing health, staying at home means getting help. For those with the means to do so, it takes a comprehensive effort to care for an aging loved one with the best quality
Sometimes, it’s necessary to correct the record. The other day, a click-baity, highly misleading headline blared: “Teresa Ghilarducci Confirms Proposal to Create Federal 401(k) Would Remove Employers from Retirement Saving System.” Sounds scary, but it’s totally untrue. Let’s get something clear: I don’t hate or want to abolish 401(k) plans — I am fortunate to
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