Social Security
The top Social Security news, strategies and planning insights advisors can use to best serve clients.
CBO Looks At Keeping SCHIP As Is
By Staff WriterThe Congressional Budget Office is getting many requests for an estimate of the cost of maintaining current State Children's Health Insurance Program enrollment levels, CBO ...
November 15, 2007
Unum Pushes Back Tender DeadlineA disability insurer is giving investors more time to sell its debt securities.Unum, Chattanooga, Tenn., originally announced a plan to make up to $400 million ...
November 12, 2007
Financial literacy31%: Percentage of those surveyed, aged 40 or older, who correctly identified all items not covered by Medicare. 32%: Percentage of respondents who understood that a person of full retirement age or older may keep 100% of his Social Securi
November 07, 2007
Official: Municipal Workers Could Help Social SecurityRequiring state and local governments to put all workers in the Social Security system could reduce the projected 75-year Social Security deficit 11%.Barbara Bovbjerg, a ...
November 04, 2007
Early Retirement: Building A Bridge To Social SecurityThese days, many people dream of an early retirement. Sometimes, early retirement is planned and, sometimes, it's not. Some workers are enticed by an early ...
November 04, 2007
Early Retirement: Building A Bridge To Social SecurityThese days, many people dream of an early retirement. Sometimes, early retirement is planned and, sometimes, it's not. Some workers are enticed by an early ...
November 02, 2007
Feds Postpone Filing Deadlines In Wildfire AreaThe U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration will be giving some employers more time to file Form 5500 and Form 5500 EZ employee ...
October 30, 2007
Recent Social Security cost-of-living adjustments2008: 2.3% (avg. senior with benefit of $1,079 will see increase of $24 per month) 2007: 3.3% (avg. senior with benefit of $1,011 saw increase of $33 per month) 2006: 4.1% (avg. senior with benefit of $963 saw increase of $39 per mont