Social Security
The top Social Security news, strategies and planning insights advisors can use to best serve clients.
Financial Reform Over the Decades: A Timeline
By Kenneth SilberThe financial services reform legislation, which the Senate passed, 60-39, on Thursday, July 15, is the latest in a century-spanning series of efforts to revamp financial and securities activities through regulation.
July 09, 2010
MSRB Asks SEC to Expand Public Information on ARS, VRDOsThe Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) filed on Friday, July 9, a proposal with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that amends an earlier filing about variable rate demand obligations (VRDOs) and auction rate securities (ARS).
July 06, 2010
Witness Suggests Changing Social Security Indexing MethodProposals for reining in Social Security and Medicare spending surfaced at a recent federal fiscal responsibility forum.
July 05, 2010
Whiskey to the (Pension) RescueCompany to use Johnnie Walker to fill $645 million retirement shortfall. Talk about liquid assets...
July 05, 2010
Witness Suggests Changing Social Security Indexing MethodProposals for reining in Social Security and Medicare spending surfaced at a recent federal fiscal responsibility forum.
July 02, 2010
Diageo Sends Whiskey to the (Pension) RescueIs there nothing the carmel color liquid can't do? Diageo, the maker of Johnnie Walker whiskey, found an innovative way to plug a gaping deficit in its pension plan: put aside 2 million barrels of maturing whiskey from its distilleries in Scotland.
July 02, 2010
CBO on Social Security: Pay Now or Cry LaterCongressional Budget Office officials have tried once again to suggest that the United States should adjust Social Security to increase the odds that the program will deliver the promised benefits.
July 02, 2010
CBO on Social Security: Pay Now or Cry LaterCongressional Budget Office officials have tried once again to suggest that the United States should adjust Social Security to increase the odds that the program will deliver the promised benefits.