Filed under: Retirement, Careers
The lifestyle that’s long been associated with the golden years — hobby-filled days, long vacations, adventures with the grandkids — could be changing, a new survey has found.
A growing number of Americans now expect to keep working into their 70s, according to The First Command Financial Behaviors Index, which reviews trends shaping financial behaviors, attitudes and intentions via a monthly survey of about 1,000 U.S. consumers.
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Filed under: Retirement, Career
The lifestyle that’s long been associated with the golden years — hobby-filled days, long vacations, adventures with the grandkids — could be changing, a new survey has found.
A growing number of Americans now expect to keep working into their 70s, according to The First Command Financial Behaviors Index, which reviews trends shaping financial behaviors, attitudes and intentions via a monthly survey of about 1,000 U.S. consumers.
(Continue the story…)
Filed under: Retirement, Career
The lifestyle that’s long been associated with the golden years — hobby-filled days, long vacations, adventures with the grandkids — could be changing, a new survey has found.
A growing number of Americans now expect to keep working into their 70s, according to The First Command Financial Behaviors Index, which reviews trends shaping financial behaviors, attitudes and intentions via a monthly survey of about 1,000 U.S. consumers.
(Continue the story…)
Filed under: Retirement, Saving Money, Investing
Retirement planning is no slam-dunk. To make sure you retire in comfort, you have to start saving early and often. You need to pay attention to your money and not be distracted by the stresses and strains — or the joys — of day-to-day life. In the long run, you’ll thank yourself for keeping one eye focused on the future.
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Filed under: Retirement, Investing, Retirement – 401(k), Retirement Advice
This is not going to be another one of the endless string of depressing and discouraging articles on how ill-prepared you are for your golden years. About how you don’t have enough in your retirement savings accounts. About how you should have started sooner rather than later planning for retirement.
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Filed under: Retirement, Saving Money, Economizer, Retirement Advice
With age comes some privileges, and chief among them may be getting discounts just for being older. And just how old is “older?” AARP, the country’s largest lobbying group, considers you a senior when you turn 50.
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Filed under: Retirement, In the News
Every year, Social Security snail-mails 150 million workers a statement estimating what their payments would be if they retired at age 62, 66 or 70. In our household, we call it the annual fantasy letter, trying to imagine that Social Security won’t go bust before we reach those ages.
Now Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue has announced that in an effort to save money — $70 million a year — the agency is going to provide these statements online by the end of the year. (Continue the story…)
Filed under: Budgets, Retirement, Wealth
Taking Social Security benefits at 62 may seem like a good idea, but if you wait, you’ll thank yourself later. Here are four reasons why:
1. You get less money when you claim early
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Filed under: Credit, Retirement, Refinancing
While we’re doing a lot of things “right” these days (such as paying more attention to our credit card statements, shopping more frugally, and redefining our vision of retirement), we’re still making quite a few mistakes. And some of them can be costly — like these five common consumer mistakes:
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Filed under: Retirement, Saving Money, Investing, Retirement – 401(k)
Top your spring to-do list with an IRA tuneup — before you sharpen the lawnmower blades and scrub up the the barbecue grill.
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