Retirement

My father was a lifelong member of the local Steamfitters union. When he hung up his green work cap for good in 1982, he enrolled in Medicare Part A, hospital insurance, and Part B, medical insurance, and the retiree plan. He had that coverage until he died. Back in my father’s day, signing up for

Do you want to retire in comfort? What does that mean? Everyone has their own vision of what a comfortable retirement looks like. But there is a common thread you share with all of them. To retire with ease requires something akin to financial independence. This is the ideal. This is where you don’t ever

Looking for the best places to live around the world? There’s no better source than expats, who have a unique POV on what it’s like to live in a foreign country—and in the U.S. For the 10th year in a row, InterNations has polled nearly 12,000 expats around the globe to come up with a

While many states have expanded their Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) for frail older adults, others continue to steer many enrollees into nursing homes. One big reason: They fear that enhancing home supports will encourage more older adults to enroll in Medicaid long-term care services (LTSS) and increase state costs. But a new study

Do you know your life expectancy? This number may be more important in determining your investment time horizon than how close you are to retirement. Yet, the latter is what we tend to focus on. After all, most people think about how many years they have until retirement when they’re deciding how aggressively or conservatively

One of the challenges facing financial planning is that, however helpful, it has an unavoidably boring vibe. Sure, big financial companies have attempted to wrap it in a veneer of golf courses, sailboats, and marine mammals, but just beneath the surface are spreadsheets, allocations, illustrations, and boilerplate plans that lack a certain…je ne sais quoi.

She was a heavy smoking, alcoholic, obese woman who reached her first breaking point 40 years ago. After DeEtte Sauer’s friend drank himself to death, she woke up to her own alcohol dependency. She resolved to stop drinking, joined Alcoholics Anonymous and stuck with that. She went on to quit smoking, which she found extremely

Opps, total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 209,000 in June, far below the 225,000 economists expected yesterday. Workers are not getting or demanding big wage increases – though average weekly earnings for all private sector workers in June increased by a $7 to $1,155 up from May’s $1,148. But higher prices are still eroding buying

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted final approval to the anti-Alzheimer’s drug lecanamab, marked as Leqembi by drugmakers Eisai and Biogen BIIB . Here is what you need to know: What does it do? In a formal phase 3 trial, Leqembi was shown to slow the progression of memory loss and cognitive impairment

Most people do not like to talk about death. But an important part of your financial health is what happens to your Social Security benefits when a spouse passes away. To qualify for Survivor Benefits: Survivor needs to be at least 60 and not married, or 50 if disabled You need to be married at