Tag: retirement
There’s an informal rule in journalism: put too many numbers in an article, and readers will drop like flies. A similar phenomenon might also be at work when someone looks at a Social Security statement filled with numbers. The statement, which is intended to help workers plan for retirement, shows the size of the monthly…
Self-employed and gig workers who fail to report all of their earnings to the federal government will pay a price: a smaller monthly Social Security check when they retire. Gauging the magnitude of this problem is tricky since the IRS doesn’t know how much is not being reported by a group of workers not easily…
