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Social Security: Are Longer Life Expectancies a Threat to Your Benefits
Being smart about Social Security involves making guesses about your life expectancy, and over the past few decades the longevity of retirees has trended steadily upward. But while that’s good news for you, it could be bad news for the…
Treasury Doesn’t Know How Much New MyRA Program Will Cost
In January during his State of the Union Address, President Obama unveiled his new myRA program. “Let’s do more to help Americans save for retirement. Today, most workers don’t have a pension. A Social Security check often isn’t enough on its…
Retirement is bad for your health, and your wealth
With longevity increasing, people are looking for more substance, engagement, income, meaning, and purpose for a new stage of life. Many are working longer, out of economic need or to enhance their financial cushion, to subsidize kids in school and…
Lawmaker questions Utah’s taxation of Social Security
Utah is among a minority of states that tax Social Security benefits, and at least one lawmaker thinks it’s time to rethink that. Sen. Todd Weiler says he intends to pursue legislation that would grant a state income tax exemption —…
Panel questions Social Security field office closings
The Social Security Administration has cut thousands of field workers and reduced hours and services at hundreds of satellite offices over the past four years at a time when baby boomers are starting to hit retirement age, a new Senate…
Expand Medicare to serve all veterans
The problem of long wait times for veterans seeking care at some (but not all) Veterans Health Administration facilities has been front-page news for the past several weeks, and seems to be resulting in an unusually prompt response from a normally gridlocked…
Calculating the 2015 Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA)
Would you like to see an increase of 1.69% in your retirement annuity in January 2015? That may happen or, perhaps, the final figure could even be higher. The 1.69% is based on the latest figures from the Consumer Price Index…
Disability Insurance: The Overlooked Employee Benefit
Does your pay stub include the cryptic three-letter code LTD with a tiny dollar amount that’s deducted each pay period? It stands for long-term disability insurance, and it pays to have it to provide for your family when you can’t…
Retirement: a good time to buy a getaway
Buoyed by gains in their investments and home equity, vacation-home buyers have returned to the beaches, woods and mountains in search of bargains on vacation properties. Vacation-home sales rose 29.7 percent in 2013 from the year before, and the median…
STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE PRESENTS WORK ABILITY SUMMIT 2014 ON THURSDAY JUNE 26, 2014 IN ST. LOUIS
Starkloff Disability Institute (SDI), a non-profit organization that helps people with disabilities participate fully and equally in all aspects of society, hosts top industry human resource executives for SDI’s Work Ability Summit on Thursday June 26, 2014, to discuss key…