All Entries in the "Retirement" Category
Double Social Security Benefits
How’d you like to double the size of your Social Security checks? You will goose your future retirement income if you are able to delay the start of your benefits from age 62 to 70, reports CBS MarketWatch.
Social Security Squeezed by Flood of Retirees
New figures show that the Social Security trust fund’s annual surplus was all but exhausted in 2009 as the recession steered hundreds of thousands of workers to retirement or claiming disability.
The Case Against Retirement
The Age of Retirement was one of America’s most successful social reforms ever. But that era is over. A new vision of old age is emerging from the trauma of the credit crunch and the Great Recession.
How Accomplished People Retire Successfully
Here we are, full of life, maybe even feeling full of youth, and close enough to be thinking about putting all this energy into retirement. Fast forward to the U.S. economy, 2009…which is another way of saying, Not so fast, pal. You may want to retire, but you have to work. That’s what psychologist and executive coach Bill Roiter writes about in his book Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Retire Successfully.
Where’s Your Ideal Place to Retire?
Here’s a quick and easy online poll. Best of all, no strings attached – Many baby boomers have seen their retirement nesteggs shrink in recent months, due to the economy. But, let’s dream a little … if you had adequate retirement funds to live just about anyplace, where would you choose to retire?
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Protect Social Security and Medicare
Stop the baby boomer bashing, writes Dean Baker for PoliticalAffairs.net.
Remember all those headlines about how the baby boom cohorts just lost several trillion dollars in home equity due to the collapse of the housing bubble and how they lost trillions more in their retirement accounts as a result of the stock market crash? Most people [...]
The Math of Social Security
Paul Briand of Baby Boomer Examiner reports, Early-wave Baby Boomers started collecting Social Security last year, a trickle that is becoming a torrent — 10,000 Baby Boomers will apply for benefits every day for the next 20 years.
But be advised if you are part of that torrent: The calculation of your Social Security benefits may [...]
Social Security: Apply Now Online
Baby boomers have lived through the assassinations of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Martin Luther King Jr., the race to the moon and the Communist threat, Watergate and a few wars. Along the way, most became comfortable using computers and the Internet.
Now, as they ease into their golden years, they’ll be part of another change: [...]
Are Communities Ready for Boomers?
A series of news reports seeks to answer the question: “Is my community a good place to grow old?”
The stories are the product of reporter Cicily O’Connor and Spot.Us, a non-profit project for community-funded journalism.
The series — “When the longevity revolution hits your town” — is significant on two fronts:
First, it explores a topic of [...]
7 Ways for Boomers to Find Health Insurance
Laid-off? Here’s are seven ways for baby boomers who have been laid-off to find health insurance, as reported by Emily Brandon of U.S. News …
Workers who find themselves unexpectedly laid off in middle age or forced into early retirement have many worries. One of their greatest fears is about finding health insurance coverage. Some 21 [...]
Retire Abroad: Some Ideas
If you’re thinking that as soon as this Christmas break is over the real state of the economy and the nation is going to be revealed, we have a feeling you’re right. Some employers who have been holding back the bad news may be forced to unveil it in 2009, and as a result [...]
What If Boomer Don’t Retire?
The question is being asked often these days. “What Happens to Business if the Boomers Don’t Retire?” is the theme of an opinion column by Robert W. Wendover, director of The Center for Generational Studies of Aurora, Colorado.
Wendover writes … Much has been made of shrinking Baby Boomer assets over the past few months. [...]
Boomers Growing Older, Part 2
To begin his presentation on baby boomers for a recent housing discussion in Seattle, “Pig in the Python: Design for Aging Forum,” Matt Thornhill, president and co-founder of the Boomer Project, told the audience about how defining events in the lives of baby boomers have shaped the character of this large and interesting demographic.
Boomers feel [...]
