Tag: Social Security

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Half of the workers who have an employer retirement plan haven’t saved enough to ensure they can retire comfortably. This 17-minute video might be just the ticket for them. Kevin Bracker, a finance professor at Pittsburg State University in Kansas, presents a solid retirement strategy to workers with limited resources who need to get smart…

Screenshot of SS statement

When a Social Security statement comes in the mail, most people do not, as one might suspect, throw it on the pile of envelopes. They actually open it up and read it. But are they absorbing the statements’ detailed estimates of how much money they’ll get from Social Security? RAND researcher Philip Armour tested this…