Are you interested in bargains? Personally, I think we all have a little of the gene that exults in getting a good deal. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that I love Social Security and Medicare.
Is there optimism about the economy in the wind? Evidently the baby boomers can smell something because a survey by Del Webb, the nation’s leading builder of retirement communities found that those individuals 50 to 60 years old were more likely to plan to retire by age 65 than those surveyed just three years ago.…
Many Americans plan to keep working as long as possible or plan not to retire at all but something happens on the way to achieving that goal.
When you were in your 50s, you may have joined a very select group of people by buying a long term care policy. It may have seemed like the ideal way to keep control of the prohibitive costs of long term care. And when you were in your 50s, it probably was.
Nearly forty percent of American adults provide care for sick or elderly relatives according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life project and those caregivers have become heavy technology users.
Here are some mostly unrelated news items from this week about saving health care dollars, getting an expert opinion and avoiding medication problems when the grandchildren visit.
This is a guest blog from Dr. Robert Emerick, the Founder, President and Interventional Cardiologist at Choice Cardiovascular, a direct practice (also called concierge medicine or boutique medicine). Dr. Emerick’s website can be found at http://www.choicecardiovascular.com/. James Gandolfini, well known to many of us as the likeable, yet brutal and sociopathic, family man, modern-day don of…
I recently wrote a white paper on survivor benefits. One of the points I made in the paper was that dependent children (up to age 19 if he or she is still attending high school) of a deceased parent can claim Social Security benefits. And because I was writing about the benefits that a…
You can work while receiving Social Security retirement benefits. And doing so can mean a higher benefit for you in the future. While you are working though, your earnings will reduce the amount of your benefit until you reach your full retirement age at which point there is no penalty for earning a wage.
On June 14, Washington State Governor, Jay Inslee signed a measure to fix an estate tax law just hours before the first $13 million of an estimated $160 million in estate tax refunds over the next two years was expected to be mailed out. Prior judges have ordered refunds so the legislators were under…
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