Americans want to know how to get the most from their Social Security benefits, and they have posed more than 11,000 questions to AARP over the years. The group of more than 37 million people age 50 and older has been collecting these queries – and answers to them – in an online searchable database [...] [...more]
Gary Zeiger could have used an investment adviser back in the 1990s. As a young techie at a software company, he got swept up in dot-com stock fever and lost two-thirds of his 401(k) portfolio when the bubble burst in 2000. The remainder evaporated later, when a layoff forced him to tap the account to [...] [...more]
Leah Witherspoon lives on $1,684 a month from Social Security, which is just a little more than the average Social Security retirement benefit this year of $1,261. The 66-year-old Dallas widow, a former school cafeteria supervisor, is a typical Social Security beneficiary in another way: Her benefits provide just enough to get by. But that [...] [...more]
Call it the myth of the greedy geezer – an argument keeps popping up in Washington that old people have it too good, and that entitlement spending is squeezing out programs for the young and the needy. We can maintain our current spending on programs like Social Security, or we can have Head Start – [...] [...more]
Intel Corp. has something new inside: A $25,000 retiree benefit to help older workers transition into new careers in non-profit organizations. Last year, the technology giant launched the Intel Encore Career Fellowship program – a program offering a paid, one-year, $25,000 stipend to encourage near-retirement employees to put their skills to work in new careers [...] [...more]
