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Veteran GOP Strategist Paul Young Named Senior Adviser to Lindsey Graham
Portsmouth-based Republican will oversee NH as part of national role South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has begun building a New Hampshire team as he moves toward a presidential run. WMUR.com has learned that Paul Young, a Portsmouth-based veteran operative with more…
Clients’ Top Retirement Worry is Going Broke: AICPA
CPA financial planners in survey list their clients’ top retirement-related concerns Americans worry most about running out of money in retirement, according to a survey released in April by the American Institute of CPAs. The institute’s first quarter personal financial planners…
Studies are Bringing Some Unpleasant Realities About Retirement Planning to Light
As a rapidly increasing demographic, retiring baby boomers are getting a lot of attention, particularly in the area of financial health. Researchers are finding out many oldsters simply haven’t salted much away for retirement. Last fall, a Harris poll conducted for…
Understanding the Retirement Earnings Test
For most Americans, Social Security plays an important role in maintaining retirement security. Benefit payments represent an income stream that is free of default, investment, inflation and longevity (outliving your money) risks. In other words, regardless of economic and market conditions,…
Be Wary of Taking a ‘Pension Advance’
Today, traditional pension benefits are gold for retirees who receive them, as they’re fast disappearing from the workplace. But even with a pension, some retirees still struggle financially and sometimes have a need for extra cash because of unexpected bills or…
Want to Help Middle Class? Let Them Opt Out of Social Security
One of the great ironies of American politics is that most politicians who talk about helping the middle class support policies that, by expanding the welfare-warfare state, are harmful to middle-class Americans. Eliminating the welfare-warfare state would benefit middle-class Americans…
Social Security: The Biggest Threat to Your Benefits (Hint: It Isn’t Claiming at 62)
America faces a retirement crisis, and Social Security is the one source of funds that millions of retirees will count on to make ends meet once they quit their jobs once and for all. Yet with all the discussion and…
7 Retirement Facts Millennials Need to Understand
Will millennials ever be able to retire? That depends on who you ask. Some reports on young people’s retirement readiness are all doom and gloom. A 2015 UBS Investor Watch report found that millennials are the “least likely to plan…
Call Kurtis Investigates: Social Security Erroneously Declares 9,000 Dead a Year
Seventy-eight year old Elizabeth Passage said the Social Security Administration wrongfully declared her dead….She spent 2-months trying to get anyone to listen. “It’s really outrageous,” said Jamie Court with Consumer Watchdog. CBS 13 has learned the Social Security Administration erroneously declares 9-thousand…
5 Opportunities to Sell to Gen Y
What are some of the things that keep you up at night? A new study reveals that these financial worries might be the same ones that your younger counterparts are having. According to a survey published in April by Northwestern Mutual…