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Average retirement age hits 62, will likely go up
Baby boomers are pushing retirement back further and further. According to Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey, the average age at which Americans report retiring is now 62. That’s the highest reported age since Gallup started tracking this data…
Crusader for disability rights speaks at Shasta College commencement
For the hundreds who gathered to either walk, or watch, at the Shasta College graduation, Richard Pimentel had many messages. “I decided to go to jail, and it was the best decision I ever made,” said Pimentel, who has made…
Eligible Medicare beneficiaries will receive hospice coverage
Coping with terminal illness can be very difficult, for the patient as well as his or her loved ones. That’s why I want to pass along some information about Medicare’s coverage of hospice care.Hospice is a program of care and…
Don’t let inflation crack your nest egg
Inflation seems to be rearing its ugly and insidious head. And that can mean only one thing for those saving for or living in retirement: Without a plan of action to mitigate the effects of rising prices, you’re certain to…
Will You Be Able to Retire?
No matter how much money we may be saving for retirement, one nagging question lingers: Will it be enough? Online retirement calculators aim to help solve that mystery. They can be useful tools, but don’t rely on them for bankable…
Physical Disability Discrimination Flies Under the Radar
Quite logically and necessarily, much has been written in these pages about the distasteful reality of racial, gender and religious prejudice in PR. But prejudice due to physical disabilities has receives little attention Take the example of a young man…
Medicare fraud by the billions; senators wrestle with how to stop it
It shows up almost daily, in a drumbeat of press releases from the Justice Department about prosecutions of scam artists who’ve preyed on the government’s biggest health care program — the $600 billion bureaucracy called Medicare. In the latest example,…
Don’t risk retirement when paying for college education
As graduation season approaches, financial planner Michael Garry often finds his advice to clients balancing retirement and college savings goals falling on deaf ears. “I tell them not to do anything (in terms of college spending) that will jeopardize retirement,…
1 in 4 Americans is saving nothing for retirement
The latest COUNTRY Financial Security Index released Thursday showed that one in four Americans, across all age groups, is not saving at all for retirement. A majority of respondents (55%) said they either are not participating in a workplace sponsored…
Light exercise linked to less disability
People who engage in plenty of light movement have a lower risk of developing a disability and losing their capacity to care for themselves, a new study suggests. The study included middle-aged and older adults who had knee osteoarthritis or…