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The Social Security Administration recently introduced enhancements that should make it easier for beneficiaries to do business with the agency. One change is the acceptance of…

As you know, for most people, you can claim Social Security retirement benefits between the ages of 62 and 70. Full retirement age is between the…

For the first time since 2006, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) didn’t release next year’s projected premiums and other data for Medicare Part D…

There are things in life that are not a matter of opinion. They are a matter of math. We do not believe that financial decisions, whether…

After years of favoring online and telephone scams, a number of crooks are drifting back to old-fashioned theft involving paper checks. In the last year, a…

Careful research done by Ph.D economists conclude we face a huge retirement shortfall. We are about eight to nine years away from Social Security’s inability to…

Many retirees are finding that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and they’re returning to work in some way. In fact, the number is…

More and more households led by someone age 55 or older have debt, according to recent research from the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI). In 1992,…

Thirty-five years ago, Ken Dychtwald, PhD, wrote a landmark book, Age Wave. It was a thoughtful and well researched analysis on the impact of the baby…

Really, I don’t want to be doing this. I just want a fact-based discussion on retirement income security, so we can fix what needs fixing and…