Retirement sounds lovely for most people: no boss, no schedule, no problems… There are a million reasons you may want to stop working, even if you don’t hate your job – you might just want to enjoy a life of active leisure while your body is young enough to cooperate. Maybe you don’t even like […]
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Roth, Traditional, and Your Social Security
As you save for retirement you can choose between Roth and Traditional accounts. You’ve probably already decided what’s best based on your future tax rates, but did you look at how your choice affects your Social Security income? Assuming you get anything, your Social Security benefits might be taxable, depending in part on whether you […]
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What is the Retirement Age?
As you start to imagine your life without a day job, you may wonder what the retirement age is. The truth is that you can retire whenever you feel like it – the question is whether or not you can afford to retire at a particular age, given the resources available to you at that […]