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Lifetime retiree health care cost projections up 6.5%
Retiree health care costs continue to rise at a faster pace than general inflation and annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits. As a result, retirees will spend increasingly larger portions of their retirement benefits to pay for health care…
Employees lack knowledge to optimize Social Security benefits
As American workers are increasingly looking to a new range of employer-sponsored retirement products to help guarantee some securely funded golden years, they may be missing out on the advantages of a system they’ve paid into their entire working lives. John…
Expanding Social Security Across Generations
Expanding Social Security by increasing benefits would be a partial solution to four challenges America faces: the income insufficiency of today’s seniors; the retirement income crisis confronting today’s middle-aged and young workers; insufficient recognition of and public support for the…
How to Fix Disability Insurance
In late 2016, right around the time we elect the 45th president of the United States, we are due for our first entitlement crisis in two decades. That’s when the actuaries in the Social Security Administration project that the Disability…
Social Security Tips for Married Couples
Try these strategies to boost retirement benefits for you and your spouse. When it comes to Social Security, marriage has some significant benefits. You can claim benefits based on your own earnings or choose to receive up to 50% of…
Gridlock still blocking overdue Social Security reform
Last week the Ghost of Gridlock Present crossed paths in Washington with the Ghost of Gridlock Future. It makes for a spine-chilling tale. Gridlock Present was haunting the Senate, where legislators dissolved into partisan warfare over a bill to fight human…
Paralyzed Veterans of America Expresses Concern Over House Budget Plan in Open Letter to Congress
Today Paralyzed Veterans of America released the following open letter from Executive Director Homer Townsend, Jr., to Speaker of the House John A. Boehner in response to the House budget plan: Read more… Notice: The “Read more…” link provided…
Opinion/Editorial: SSA needs to focus on accuracy
Last week (“Errors mean your money is given away,” March 19), we addressed the problem of the Social Security Administration’s failure to maintain proper records in which some 6.5 million people who would be at least 112 years old are still listed…
How young women can bridge retirement savings gap
Saving enough money for retirement can be daunting for anyone. But a growing body of research shows that women in particular lack the confidence to plan for old age. According to the latest annual retirement survey by financial services firm Transamerica,…
Social Security ALJs in the crosshairs
In the last few years, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has been blasting administrative law judges for the way they handle claims for Social Security disability benefits. The court alleges ALJs tend to cherry-pick facts, fail to consider the…