Think you’ll work until you’re 70 or even longer? A new MetLife Mature Market Institute study of boomers born in 1946 found that more than half of them are retired despite earlier intentions to postpone retirement.
If you wait until age 70 to collect your Social Security benefits, your benefits will be 76 percent higher than if you had begun to take benefits at age 62. This could mean that it might be smarter to spend down your retirement savings such as a 401(k) in order to delay taking your benefits.
According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and the fourth worldwide. More than 143,000 new cases of cancers of the colon or rectum are expected in the United States this year and nearly 52,000 people will die from it.
We’d like to take a moment to thank the veterans and their families for the sacrifices they’ve made by being the ones to willingly and bravely stand and fight for our freedom and for our honor. Thank you.
Are you shopping for a long term care policy? Buying a standalone long term care policy can be expensive and while you hope you don’t need it, it’s very expensive insurance that clients often see as money wasted when it isn’t used.
Say you fall down at home and break some bones. Don’t do it but just say that you do. Naturally, you go to the hospital, right? And after a four day stint at the hospital, because no one at home can care for you and your broken pelvis and broken elbow, you head off…
If you provide caregiving for a loved one, you probably have stress. It’s nothing to be ashamed of so those of you thinking right now that it doesn’t stress you out to care for Mom or Grandpa or your spouse don’t need to get your backs up. Ask any parent with a newborn kid. …
New research indicates that depression may double the risk of stroke for middle aged women providing yet another reason for doctors to look for symptoms of depression in their female patients.
Are you following through on your estate plans? Here’s what I mean. If you have a life insurance policy, do you still want it to go to the beneficiary you chose a decade ago? Two decades ago?
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