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New Medicare enrollees can expect their uncertain medical expenses to take roughly $67,000 out of the household budget, on average, over the rest of their lives. Since this estimate is only an average, some retirees will pay less and some will pay much more. And the estimate, revealed in a new brief by Karolos Arapakis…

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While the contours of the Great Recession and the COVID Recession differed sharply, older workers continued to retire and claim Social Security.  The question that my co-authors, Anqi Chen and Siyan Liu, and I explored in a recent study is the relative impacts of the two recessions on the claiming behavior of different groups. To answer that question, we used data…