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Your Best Place to Retire Might Be… in a City

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

December 9, 2015 — For a surprising number of baby boomers the ideal retirement is not in an active community with a golf course, tennis courts, swimming pool, or clubhouse. Neither is it a small town, nor a postcard pretty burg with a college as its centerpiece. Instead, many surprise…

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Published on December 8, 2015
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Ten Great Places to Retire for LGBT People – and Everyone!

Category: LGBT Retirement

By Dave Hughes December 7, 2015 –When it comes to choosing a place to live during retirement, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) people want the same things that everyone else wants – someplace safe, reasonably priced, agreeable climate, cultural and recreational amenities, and good healthcare. LGBT people, however,…

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Published on December 7, 2015
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Tick, Tick, Tick… Time Running Out to Take Your Annual RMD

Category: Financial and taxes in retirement

December 6, 2015 — If you have a 401(k) and/or an IRA, and you turned 70 and 1/2 in 2014 or earlier, you have a very big deadline coming December 31. That is the date by which you must take your annual Required Minimum Distribution (RMD), or face significant penalties.

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Published on December 5, 2015
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Start Your Own Cohousing Community

Category: Active adult communities

December 1, 2015 — We are very happy for the folks who find their perfect place to retire -it is wonderful that you can live your dream. But we know there are many others who haven’t found their Goldilocks place, yet anyway. For those who haven’t, perhaps your experience is…

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Published on December 1, 2015
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The Most Innovative Retirement Living Idea Yet – The Urban HomeFarm

Category: Green Retirement Communities

November 30, 2105 — We have just seen the most interesting idea for productive, sustainable retirement living yet. The idea is from an architectural firm called Spark, which won first prize for Future- Experimental Project at the 2015 World Architecture Festival held in Singapore. Their winning project, HomeFarm, is a…

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Published on November 30, 2015
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Free eBook on Social Security – Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 Only

Category: Financial and taxes in retirement

Nov 30 Update: It is a little tricky to get the ebook for free, but you can do it. Use this link and find the link that says 0.00 to Buy. Click on that, not the Amazon/Kindle unlimited option (you have to be a subscriber for that). Then…

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Published on November 28, 2015
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Didn’t Sign Up for Part D Medicare – Double Ouch!

Category: Financial and taxes in retirement

November 24, 2015 — There are many classic examples of the kind of mistake made by your Topretirements.com editor. They include experts who don’t listen to their own advice: the cobbler with holes in his soles, the doctor who still smokes, the plumber with a leaky faucet – you get…

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Published on November 24, 2015
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Our Members Speak: A Blue Ridge Mountains Retirement

Category: Best Retirement Towns and States

November 22, 2015 — Over the years we have heard from many of our Members who were considering retirement in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We know there are many more who are tempted by the amazing scenery, mild 4 season climate, and outstanding recreational opportunities in this area. So it…

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Published on November 21, 2015
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How the New Social Security Claiming Rules Affect You

Category: Financial and taxes in retirement

November 16, 2015 — The biggest change affecting Social Security benefits in at least 15 years is about to go into effect on April 30, 2016. It is a change that could cost certain beneficiaries $50,000 over a lifetime. As with any major change to a benefit program there has…

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Published on November 16, 2015
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Final 2016 Medicare Part B Premiums and Deductibles Announced

Category: Financial and taxes in retirement

November 12, 2015 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the 2016 premiums and deductibles for the Medicare inpatient hospital (Part A) and physician and outpatient hospital services (Part B) programs. Part B Premiums/Deductibles Most people with Medicare Part B will not see any increase…

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Published on November 12, 2015
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