Video: Common Retirement Planning Blunders and How to Overcome Them
In this video, T. Rowe Price financial planner Stuart Ritter talks about common blunders faced by people entering retirement — and how to overcome them.
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Former Senator: Social Security Payouts Should Be More Progressive
Bob Kerrey, a former U.S. senator and ex-governor of Nebraska, says he has one idea on the top of his retirement policy wish list in 2015: making Social Security payouts more progressive.
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Video: Examining the Retirement Age Debate
Here’s a segment from PBS NewsHour that explores the idea of raising the retirement age and the effect it would have on the Social Security Administration and Americans.
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BBB Warns of Publishers Clearing House Scams – Here’s What To Look For
The Better Business Bureau says one particular scam is sweeping Texas – and it’s a scam that has popped up in other states around the country for years.
Consumers are contacted ...
The Three Least Tax-Friendly States For Retirees
Kiplinger has released its ranking of the tax-friendliness of every state for retirees.
From which states are retirees running scared? Here are the three least tax-friendly states ...
Pennsylvania Lawmaker Will Reintroduce Plan to Replace Pension System With Mandatory 401(k) Plan for All New Public Employees
Pennsylvania State Rep. Warren Kampf says he will be reintroducing a bill that would significantly alter the states pension system.
The bill would create two new, mandatory defined-contribution ...
Pension Checks of Some Milwaukee County Retirees in Jeopardy After Acting on Government Advice
A few hundred Milwaukee County retirees are facing reduced pension checks in the future – all because they took County advice that for years resulted in benefit over-payments.
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Obama Will Address Retirement Tax, Saving Incentives During SOTU Speech
President Obama is expected to touch on some aspects of retirement security during his State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
The proposals include a retirement savings plan for ...
Orrin Hatch Puts Retirement Savings Incentives on Senate Agenda
Senator Orrin Hatch [R-Utah] is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and thus is a major player in setting the agenda for what issues the chamber will examine this year.
On Tuesday, ...
Video: Solving The Most Common Social Security Riddle
Here’s a video featuring InvestmentNews Contributing Editor Mary Beth Franklin. From the video description:
Married couples cannot simultaneously claim each others’ spousal ...


