Senior Finances
Feb 26th, 2012 |
By Sharon Shaw Elrod MSW EdD |
Category: Senior Finances
Term Life Insurance an Option for Seniors Term life insurance may be a good option for some seniors, and AARP is offering one you might want to consider. The policy is underwritten and offered by New York Life Insurance Company, partnering with AARP. The email arrived last week, and here are the details:// policies are [...]
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Feb 19th, 2012 |
By Sharon Shaw Elrod MSW EdD |
Category: Senior Finances
Financial Issues at Top of ‘Top 10 Concerns of Seniors’ Senior citizen financial concerns are at the top of the Top Ten Concerns of Seniors. That is because most of us live on fixed incomes, and we want what investments (if any) we have to last our lifetime. Most of us just don’t have much [...]
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Feb 12th, 2012 |
By Sharon Shaw Elrod MSW EdD |
Category: Senior Finances
Top of the Top Ten Senior Citizen Worries Senior finances top the top ten concerns that senior citizens experience. The majority of us are not wealthy. Some of us have a pension and others of us have investments. Almost all of us have Social Security benefits.// But we’re not wealthy. We all experience periodic concerns [...]
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Feb 5th, 2012 |
By Sharon Shaw Elrod MSW EdD |
Category: Senior Finances
Understanding Basic Economics We senior citizens need to look at a very direct relationship that we might not always acknowledge. That is the reality that a healthy national employment figure contributes to the financial well-being of everyone, including seniors. What is the relationship?// First, when more people are working and prospering, there is less need [...]
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Jan 29th, 2012 |
By Sharon Shaw Elrod MSW EdD |
Category: Senior Finances
A recent discussion in a social situation brought some interesting considerations to light regarding senior citizen finances. A group of seniors were talking about their needs for predictable guaranteed income, monthly sums they could depend on not influenced by the fluctuations of the stock market. Tens of thousands of senior citizens find themselves in this [...]
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Jan 21st, 2012 |
By Sharon Shaw Elrod MSW EdD |
Category: Senior Finances
Fixed Income Defined Let’s take a look at what a fixed income is. We typically use the term to describe the financial condition of millions of senior citizens. When refer to income as ‘fixed’, we are saying that the income for those persons is limited to the monthly amount received from defined benefit plans, most [...]
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Jan 13th, 2012 |
By Sharon Shaw Elrod MSW EdD |
Category: Senior Finances
40-Year Old Plan Has a Comeback Retirees and Baby Boomers that we hear from continue to struggle with finances. We senior citizens are not in the 1% of wealth Americans; we’re in the 99%. We want assurances that our retirement money will outlive us, and that is hard to come by. However, there is another [...]
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Jan 3rd, 2012 |
By Sharon Shaw Elrod MSW EdD |
Category: Senior Finances
Seniors Save with Internet Resources There are a variety of Internet websites that offer assistance to senior citizens looking to make their retirement dollars stretch as far as possible. SCJ did a search this week for sites that offer coupons targeted to senior citizens. Here’s what we found:// A full products and services directory offered [...]
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Dec 24th, 2011 |
By Sharon Shaw Elrod MSW EdD |
Category: Senior Finances
Last week SCJ began a two-part post on the ten best cities to retire in the United States, chosen by AARP. Their examination included over 350 cities. They looked at financial data, including property and sales-tax rates, median housing prices, cost of living and tax rates on pensions and Social Security. AARP also included recreation, [...]
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Dec 17th, 2011 |
By Sharon Shaw Elrod MSW EdD |
Category: Senior Finances
Criteria for ‘Best Retirement City’ AARP recently announced its choices for the ten best cities to retire in the United States. Their examination included over 350 cities. They looked at financial data, including property and sales-tax rates, median housing prices, cost of living and tax rates on pensions and Social Security. AARP also included recreation, [...]
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