If you or your spouse is over age 50, you should consider joining the 40 million members of AARP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization...
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An IRA is an individual retirement account that can benefit anyone who works or is self-employed. You can open your own IRA account at a bank or with...
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Receiving mail from the government doesn’t always mean unpleasant news. Although a note with a return address of IRS is likely to strike fear in...
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As the debate over healthcare rages on, many decry the single payer system as socialized medicine. Others warn of government control over healthcare...
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When Social Security was created in the 1930s, the age of eligibility to receive benefits was 65 and life expectancy for newborns was 61. Anyone who...
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After the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, Social Security was one of the first agencies to respond with help for the families of the...
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In part one, I gave a brief description of the “three-legged stool” of retirement planning.Leg one is your company retirement plan, leg...
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As a member of the baby boomer generation, I grew up believing that if I worked hard for my employer, I could eventually retire and relax in comfort...
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During an episode of Fox and Friends on April 8, co-host Gretchen Carlson inserted the comment, “Social Security, already...
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