Category: Social Security
July 4, 2025 – In an unusually partisan email that appears to have been sent to all Social Security beneficiaries today, the Social Security Administration touted the “Big Beautiful Bill” just signed into law. The headline of the email was: “Social Security Applauds Passage of Legislation Providing Historic Tax…
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Published on July 4, 2025
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
Special thanks to our Member, Barbara, who provided the information for this article. She and her husband retired to this area on the Delaware coast and wanted others to know about it. July 10, 2025 — When most people dream about retirement, their minds wander to the sunny shores of…
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Published on July 9, 2025
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Category: Bucket Lists
July 16, 2025 — Maybe you’ve seen the movie “The Bucket List”, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. In the movie they each have less than a year to live. The plot unfolds from there, as this odd duo goes on a road trip trying to accomplish as much as…
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Published on July 16, 2025
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
July 20, 2025 — Do you find yourself leaning forward to hear someone? Do you have to ask your grandchildren to repeat themselves? Do family members mention that the TV is pretty loud? Welcome to making it a “certain age” – you are probably experiencing normal age related hearing loss.
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Published on July 19, 2025
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
July 23, 2025 – There is crazy and there is cruel, and both themes are running rampant at the U.S. Department of Labor these days. For cruelty, the Labor Department has just proposed eliminating some safety standards at factories and mines, as well as to limit the government’s ability to…
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Published on July 22, 2025
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
July 23, 2025 — Almost two thirds of Americans have this understandable fear- that they will live longer than their money lasts. According to the Morningstar Center for Retirement & Policy Studies, 45% of Americans who retire at 65 have an increased risk of running out of retirement savings…
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Published on July 23, 2025
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
July 29, 2025 — Everybody’s talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Governments are fretting about how to control it, employees worry it will take away their jobs, and a lot of other folks don’t really care. The reality is that it is going to get even more important, and about to…
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Published on July 28, 2025
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