Social Security
The top Social Security news, strategies and planning insights advisors can use to best serve clients.
Phishing Threatens Agents, Carriers, Insureds
By Ara C. TremblyAs if cybercriminals, spam, virus attacks and spyware werent bad enough, theres a new technology threat fast gaining ground that targets just about everyone but ...
January 14, 2005
U.S. Comptroller Warns On Benefit CostsMajor changes need to be made to the national healthcare and social security systems to ensure that future needs are met, the head of ...
January 12, 2005
Reacting To AARPMy "Hats Off To AARP" column in the Jan. 10/17 issue hit a nerve with some of our readers. In that piece I congratulated AARP ...
January 12, 2005
Thomas Throws Cold Water On Bush Social Security Reform PlansThomas Throws Cold Water On Bush Social Security Reform PlansWashingtonThe life insurance industry was buoyed last week when the powerful chairman of the House Ways ...
January 05, 2005
Hats Off To AARP!Lets hear it for AARP. The huge and powerful lobbying organization for seniors has taken the offensive in attacking ideas to privatize Social Security. And ...
January 04, 2005
Official Denies Social Security ReportsPresident Bush is still thinking about what he wants to do to shore up the United States' retirement income security program.[@@]Recent press reports have ...
January 03, 2005
Economist: Social Security IOUs Are Not BondsNU Online News Service, Jan. 3, 2005, 4:22 p.m. ESTA Winter Haven, Fla., gadfly says the Social Security trust fund really is empty.[@@]AARP, Washington, ...
January 03, 2005
Retirees Not Saving EnoughData from a new study of the recently retired prepared for Putnam Investment underscores the need for employees to invest more aggressively before retirement, as Social Security, traditional defined benefit and cash balance plans remain the largest source of income for households.