Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
June 17, 2025 — Many Americans are stumped when it comes to understanding important financial and retirement issues. Asked questions related to Social Security benefits, Medicare coverage, employment-based retirement savings, most respondents in a recent study bombed. On average, they only answered two of the six questions on these issues…
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Published on June 16, 2025
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Category: Social Security
June 15, 2025 — It has always been the case that many more retirees claim their Social Security benefits at the earliest opportunity. The earliest possible age for claiming is 62, but only a small percentage delay until they are eligible for their maximum benefit at age 70. Some experts…
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Published on June 15, 2025
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Category: Uncategorized
Here’s How to Make Downsizing Easier, Less Painful, and Freeing Too! June 12, 2025 — You probably know in your heart that many spaces in your home are a mess. They are cluttered with stuff you “might have to use someday”, or “will get around to sorting it out”, or…
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Published on June 11, 2025
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
June 10, 2025 —Note: This article was contributed by our friend and frequent contributor, Ed LaFreniere. It is from his column, The Retirement Sage, that he wrote as part of a humor hobby before and during covid. He and his wife spent years researching retirement spots around the country, and…
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Published on June 9, 2025
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Category: Adventurous retirement
June 4, 2025 — While many of us have entertained the idea of retirement in a foreign land, the thought usually passes. It either seems too hard, too far away, or too strange. So I was delighted to meet Don and Denise on our recent trip to Paris. This interesting…
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Published on June 4, 2025
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
May 31, 2025 — It’s one of those questions that seems so obvious. Of course you ought to be happy – $6 Million dollars! But the answer is, many of us have a hard time with it. Maybe we are afraid you will spend it too fast. The bottom will…
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Published on May 31, 2025
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Category: Bucket Lists
May 26, 2025 — In honor of Memorial Day we would like to pay homage to the greatest generation, those brave young men and women that gave their lives for freedom in WW2. What better place than St Malo, France, where almost 81 years ago they fought to expand the…
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Published on May 26, 2025
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Category: Active adult communities
May 24, 2025 — Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of baby boomers are headed for a retirement in the Carolinas. There are plenty of good reasons why. In addition to a mild winter climate, both states are considered fairly tax-friendly for retirees. They offer attractive real estate prices and…
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Published on May 24, 2025
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Category: Best Retirement Towns and States
May 14, 2025 — Nobody understands the dozens of mistakes you can make when it comes to choosing a retirement community than our wonderful Members here at Topretirements. By the same token, they have developed many simple strategies for how to pick the right one. On this website they have…
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Published on May 13, 2025
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Category: Health and Wellness Issues
May 10, 2025 — If you are like me, a fun thing to do is take a simple quiz on some personal topic. The results tell something about who you are, but maybe just as important, where you stand vs. the rest of the world on that aspect of your…
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Published on May 10, 2025
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