Social Security
The top Social Security news, strategies and planning insights advisors can use to best serve clients.
Giving: Minnesota Blue, Independence Blue
By Staff WriterA foundation affiliated with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota recently awarded $1.1 million in 2007 grants.The Eagan, Minn., foundation gave the biggest grant, ...
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
October 30, 2007
Boomers and Social SecurityOct. 15, 2007: Date the nation's first baby boomer, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, filed for her Social Security retirement benefits - and she did it online. Casey-Kirschling was born one second after midnight on Jan. 1, 1946, and will be eligible for