Column-Want to do something about your ailing retirement savings? Don’t
When the stock market gets volatile, retirement investors are naturally inclined to want to do something about it.
When the stock market gets volatile, retirement investors are naturally inclined to want to do something about it.
(Corrects 2022 wage cap to $147,000 instead of $142,800 in paragraph 8)
The Great Retirement is morphing into the Great Return, with the U.S. employment report for March, released earlier this month, showing a jump back into the labor force among older workers. That reflects the plentiful number of available jobs - and reduced concerns about the health risks associated with COVID-19.
If you need help filing for Social Security, Medicare or disability benefits, I have good news and bad news.
As a journalist covering retirement, I have written dozens of stories over the years about the ins and outs of Medicare enrollment. But when the time came recently for yours truly to sign up I discovered there was still plenty left to learn. And let me just say this: the whole thing was quite a project.
The Social Security Administration has announced plans to begin reopening its vast national network of field offices to the public in January following a 20-month COVID-19 shutdown. The reopening will give the agency a needed opportunity to improve public service, but also presents some thorny challenges.
(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters)
The U.S. government recently released its annual report on the health of Social Security. Not surprisingly, that was met with a slew of doomsday forecasts from pundits and media.
Almost half of Americans enrolled in Medicare did not visit a dentist in 2018. That is a problem that goes far beyond having white teeth or a beautiful smile - poor dental care can exacerbate serious chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
The decision by U.S. drug regulators last month to approve a controversial treatment for Alzheimer’s disease could fuel an unusually large increase in Medicare premiums next year, but the outlook is clouded by a number of factors that will play out later this year.
Democrats scored a major policy victory when the U.S. Senate passed a $430 billion climate change, healthcare and tax bill that will help reduce the carbon emissions that drive climate change while also cutting drug costs for the elderly.