Retirement

Most Americans realize that inflation in the U.S. recently spiked to its highest level since the early 1980s. Moreover, what we pay for food is an important part of total inflation. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food prices account for 13.5% of the relative importance of the total index. We see the high

Time to Get to Know the Saver’s Credit The Saver’s Credit (aka the Retirement Savings Contributions Credit) helps lower to middle income taxpayers to reduce their taxes when they contribute to an employer retirement plan or a traditional or Roth individual retirement account. The vehicle is a nonrefundable tax credit, the amount being based on

Social Security benefit cuts are gathering political attention again. Increases in the age for receiving full retirement benefits are a specific cut that a large number of members of Congress have proposed. Congress will indeed adjust Social Security’s finances in the coming years to make sure the program can pay all of its promised benefits.

As politicians and partisans debate how to make sure Social Security — an historically amazing and important program for the aging — has a secure financial future, one topic regularly brought up is the idea of delaying the retirement age. It sounds reasonable. Just have everyone wait an extra year or two. How could that

America’s retirement and elder poverty crisis is painful, frightful, and undeniable—yet some experts are denying there is a retirement income security crisis and trying to persuade us there’s nothing to worry about. We wish that were so, but the numbers tell us there is a quite serious retirement crisis. Numbers Show Retirement Crisis Nearly half