fbpx

Linda Writes In And Asks “Should We Sell Our House Now Or Hold Out For More?”

Question: Dear Steve, Last year we put our house, which is paid for, on the market, expecting it to sell quickly and purchase another house with a mortgage. Our realtors lower the price by $75k to sell it, but we feel that won’t give enough to invest for our retirement. Would we be better off …

Read more

100 Million Americans Are Going to Retire Broke, Hungry, and Facing Homelessness

In a report issued more than two years ago, the National Insitute on Retirement Security said that more than 100 million Americans had no retirement savings whatsoever. As Diane Oakley, NIRS executive director, observed: The facts and data are clear. Retirement is in peril for most working-class Americans . . . When all working individuals …

Read more

Should You Borrow From Your Retirement Account to Make Ends Meet or Pay Debt?

Male thinking

A couple of smarty-pants researchers at Ohio State University came out with a very interesting paper about people borrowing from their retirement accounts. When facing money troubles it seems people are too often willing to rob from their retirement accounts to deal with an immediate financial threat. This is the classic definition of hyperbolic discounting. …

Read more

1-in-3 American Workers Have Stopped Saving for Retirement

For many Americans, saving for retirement is a luxury they simply cannot afford right now. Although investing for the future is essential, COVID-19 has left millions across the U.S. concerned more about the present as they struggle to cope with record unemployment and unprecedented economic uncertainty. In the second annual FinanceBuzz retirement survey, we look …

Read more

Survey: US retirement worries grow amid pandemic

Americans have always struggled to save. Many live paycheck to paycheck, on the very edge of financial security. Historically, that savings shortfall has been all the more dramatic when it comes to saving for retirement. But with the coronavirus pandemic and the havoc it has wrought on the economy, that retirement savings gap may worsen. Beyond …

Read more

Can You Collect Social Security if You Never Worked?

into Social Security — that you would not be eligible to receive Social Security benefits. Well, that’s not the case. In fact, there are several different scenarios in which a person can receive Social Security benefits without ever having paid into the system, or even worked, for that matter. Among the people eligible for Social Security without having worked …

Read more

This Social Security Decision Could Cost You Thousands

Phil Moeller, the author of Get What’s Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs and co-author of the updated edition of How to Get What’s Yours: The Revised Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security, answers a reader question about Social Security: Question I was born in 1951 and my wife in 1950. She began drawing …

Read more

Death of Retirement? Seniors are Working at Historic Levels

For many Americans, reaching retirement age doesn’t mean the end of work. In a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 23% of workers said they don’t expect to stop working. Additionally, new stats show that people above the age of 65 are already working at all-time high rates since record keeping began. …

Read more

How to Catch Up on Retirement Savings in Your 50s

Data is increasingly showing that many Americans, even those in their 50s, have saved little for their retirement. According to research by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, among households headed by adults ages 50 to 55, the median retirement savings is only $8,000, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Lack of retirement funds is all …

Read more