Social Security solvency
Taxing-the-Wealthy Theme Highlighted Via Survey

As we’ve been suggesting for several months, legislative interest in addressing Social Security’s steadily unraveling financial picture appears to be heating up. That’s understandable, with the clock ticking louder and louder as the 2033 point of trust fund insolvency moves…
A Quick Refresher on Social Security Solvency…and Steps You Should Consider
WDIO’s Grace Koppen hosts a brief discussion on the much-reported Social Security insolvency issue, featuring commentary from Barry Bigelow (Great Waters Financial) clarifying what to expect as the calendar moves toward the projected depletion of the program’s financial reserves. The…
Social Security’s Looming Insolvency…deja vu all over again?

Although he claimed he never said most of the things he said, baseball legend Yogi Bera is remembered by many for his utterance, “It’s deja vu all over again!” That phrase seems to be popping up frequently these days in…
Understanding The U.S. National Debt and It’s Future Implications
Daily Hampshire Gazette columnist Richard Fein, in a post yesterday on their website, provided a summary analysis of the U.S. National Debt and its implications for the future. Citing the potential for problems in arranging future debt service, coupled with…
A Perspective on Social Security’s Looming Insolvency

We’re well inside of a decade until Social Security’s accumulated reserves disappear completely. The nearly $2.9 trillion financial cushion that has been dissipating steadily for the past two years is expected to evaporate completely by 2033–and some project that point…
Working during retirement – an increasing trend
“Back in the old days,” as some would say, you worked many years in your career, and then retired to your so-called “golden years” of leisure, collecting your pension and your Social Security benefits. Well, the “old days” are no…
About Increasing Social Security’s Full Retirement Age

With Trust Fund depletion looming on Social Security’s financial horizon, there is no shortage of ideas for resolving the program’s financial woes to avoid a potential across-the-board cut in everyone’s benefit in less than a decade. Included in most discussions…
Is Social Security “Broke Beyond Belief?”
According to a self-described “retirement planning evangelist” the American Social Security program is “broke beyond belief” and may not be able to pay full benefits as soon as 2034. That, of course, is a rather harsh, yet understandable, description of…
Time is Ticking for Social Security
As insolvency looms closer every day, millions of Americans may face a cut to the income foundational to their retirement plan. A number of proposals for a solution are floating about but none seem to be making an impact on…
Medicare and Social Security: Is time running out?
We have all heard about the trust fund running out of money in approximately 10 years. Here are numbers as reported by Adam Andrzejewski at RealClearInvestigations. Read the article here…