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2024 Medicare Part B Premiums Jump 5.9%
Adjust your monthly cash flow for higher Part B premiums and IRMAA On October 12, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the rates for the 2024 Medicare Part B premiums. They also issued associated income-related monthly adjustment amounts—better known as IRMAA—for Medicare Parts B and D. And an assortment of other costs, copays, and deductibles. Medical Costs…
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Estimating Your Medicare Costs
Healthcare costs in retirement go way beyond “Medicare” Medicare. Medicare. What the heck? How can a program designed specifically to help our oldest Americans be so incredibly difficult to use? Why are there so many pieces and parts? What’s with…
Asking Retirees to Do the Impossible
Remain calm, cool, and collected during times of great economic uncertainty and personal unknowns (Part 1) Back on Aug 19, 2019, we started hearing the “R” word come out of hibernation. And it wasn’t “retirement.” At that time most economists believed…
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Retirement Dreams Can Come True and So Much More
From the time she was a little girl growing up in Virginia, Veronica McCain always wanted to live at the ocean shore. She dreamed as a young girl how wonderful it would be to live at the beach. Her family…
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Social Security is NOT Going Bankrupt (Again)
Around noon on Friday, March 30th, I was giving a presentation for the Financial Planning Association of New England. It was on one of my favorite topics: Social Security. The first question I asked the audience was “When is Social…
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Women and Money: The Decade that Changed It All
The 1990s ushered in 4 new laws that finally broke through the financial logjam Many women today are hesitant to roll up their sleeves and dig deep into money, investing, and financial planning. In large part, it’s because women have…
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Cookin’ Up Your Retirement Plan
Introducing my latest book – a big departure from the usual financial view of retirement For years I’ve been walking around with an idea in my head. Well, maybe more than one idea. But a particular one kept coming back.…
“It’s My Time to Retire!”
“And I’m going to love it!” “Whoo-hoo! What a ride!” You know it’s going to be a fun interview when your guest starts off with, “It’s 18 days till retirement! Or, it could be more… Or maybe not…” Well, just…
