Claiming Strategies
The top news, insights and advisors can use to best help clients with Social Security claiming strategies.
5 Ways to Lower RMDs, Help Clients Reduce Medicare Surcharges
By Roger WohlnerStrategies to trim required minimum distributions can lessen the impact of income-related monthly adjustment amounts, or IRMAAs.
March 15, 2022
A Hard Look at Raising the Retirement AgeThis change could bolster the Social Security system, but Marcia Mantell and other retirement experts caution that the reality is complicated.
March 10, 2022
2023 Social Security COLA Estimated at 7.6% as CPI Keeps RisingMary Johnson of The Senior Citizens League sees inflation continuing and those on fixed budgets hurting.
March 10, 2022
10 New Retirement Planning Charts to Share With ClientsJ.P. Morgan Asset Management's Guide to Retirement provides some conversation starters for advisors.
March 01, 2022
Social Security Benefits Are Taxed? Ouch!New retirees often find themselves in a higher tax bracket than they expected.
February 15, 2022
Why Claiming Social Security at 64 or 67 Could Be a Big MistakeAt these ages, waiting just one more year provides a significant jump in benefits.
January 29, 2022
How a 401(k) 'Bridge' Lets Annuity Haters Delay Social Security ClaimingResearchers looked at a way for 401(k) participants, hesitant to annuitize, to "buy a higher Social Security benefit."
January 28, 2022
A Financial Planning Checklist for Newly Single Clients Over 50After a divorce or the death of a spouse, here are some important topics to discuss with your client.