Tag: single
The longer a husband delays his Social Security retirement benefits, the larger the check his wife will get when he dies. And odds are that he’ll die first, so that decision to delay will leave her with more income every month into her 80s or even 90s. This fairly common marriage arrangement – a husband…
Resilience – financial, emotional, and in the form of family and community support – was sorely tested when COVID-19 turned lives upside down. In a study of workers and retirees 50 and older, the people who lived alone or with extended family struggled the most in the first year of COVID to make the financia…
