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4 Qualities For Retirement Planning In The Stressful Market
Making smart financial decisions is a crucial part of retirement planning. But nonfinancial qualities, like courage, play an important role, too. Why? Well, although we think of our financial choices as being purely rational, the truth is that any number of personality…
How Big Is the Social Security Crisis?
If you want to be the life of your next cocktail party, just tell everyone you meet that in 19 short years, all scheduled Social Security benefits are expected to be slashed by about 23%. Yep, 2033 will be a…
The Surprising Push to Make Your Benefits Bigger
For years, Social Security has faced a looming financial crisis that has future recipients fearful that they’ll have to accept smaller monthly payments than they’d hoped. Surprisingly, though, a growing group of lawmakers in Congress are working to raise Social…
What Might Social Security Look Like in 20 Years?
Ask a majority of Americans what they think about Social Security — the program intended to provide income to qualifying individuals so as to help prevent financial hardship — and they’ll tell you it’s broken. According to a CNN/ORC International poll…
What the history of Medicare Part D can tell us about Obamacare
How Americans will take to the Affordable Care Act over the long haul may be hard to predict, but mapping out its future course need not be entirely the product of guesswork. That’s because we have a model on which…
Man with disability needs help finding his service dog last seen in Marion, AR
A Colorado man with a disability needs your help finding his service dog last spotted in Marion, Ark. “I have basically scoured the whole highway,” said the dog’s owner, Mark Urich. “Just walking and calling him.” Urich got into Marion…
This week: National My Social Security Week
The Social Security Administration has declared this week National my Social Security Week. The administration is asking for help encouraging Americans to sign-up for their own my Social Security account. It is offering posters, publications, social media content and other…
Telephone tax scam growing
The Internal Revenue Service has shifted most of its operations online, but tax scammers are relying on a 19th century invention. Con artists pretending to be IRS agents are calling people via Alexander Graham Bell’s communications-changing device and, in many cases, demanding…
Social Security: The Surprising Push to Make Your Benefits Bigger
For years, Social Security has faced a looming financial crisis that has future recipients fearful that they’ll have to accept smaller monthly payments than they’d hoped. Surprisingly, though, a growing group of lawmakers in Congress are working to raise Social…
Court officials warn of jury scam
Durham County court officials have been informed that a Durham County resident was recently targeted in a scam involving jury duty. A caller informed the resident that a bench warrant had been issued because they had failed to report for…