Category: Retirement
Giant Little-Known Social Security Loophole Could Be Shut Down
Those of us who were forced to start collecting Social Security benefits at 62- the earliest year – still have an opportunity to bump up our benefits to a much higher level. There is a little known loophole in the Social Security regulations that permit people to pay back their benefits and start all over [...]
Conn Teachers’ Retirement Board Urged To Provide ID Protection After Breach
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal — citing an eight-month delay by the State Teachers’ Retirement Board in notifying 58,506 individuals about a security breach — urged the board to provide credit monitoring and other identity theft protections. The board notified Blumenthal’s office in December of last year that a flash drive, though encrypted, was missing. The [...]
Oz Griebel: Reduce Legislators’ and Their Spouses’ Free Health Insurance Life Coverage
I am not familiar with all the candidates for Connecticut governor, but I have had the pleasure of meeting GOP contender Oz Griebel in many of his roles: banker and civic leader.
He is not a politician by your standard measurements, but he is extremely qualified in my book.
BOOK REVIEW: Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation
Book reviewer Maggie Dwyer writes that since she has turned to the award-winning book, Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong, ”I have changed my phone company, my electric company, and my Internet service. In those few acts alone, I’ve paid for the book several times over.” In this review, she gives many examples about how this book has changed her life and those of her friends for the better. She’s a true citizen of Watchdog Nation!
Best Places To Retire
While these types of Top Places for anything need to be taken with a lot of salt, its always interesting to see how other people’s views. In this case, CBSMoneyWatch.com picked its top places for retirement and listed in the column where others have chosen their top pics. The CBS Money Watch pics are: * [...]
Life Settlement Investments: Keep Eyes WIDE OPEN
Imagine in this age of financial scandal if your financial adviser sends you a “Dear Client” letter informing you that the company he urged you to invest $50,000 in has been shut down. But, he writes, you should feel no obligation to cooperate with investigators. And he coaches you on what you do NOT have to say. That’s what happened to clients of a Texas financial adviser when a life settlement company was shut down by the state. Watchdog Nation founder Dave Lieber shares the details.
Nursing Homes: Some Insight Into What Nursing Homes Won’t Tell You
Thanks to SmartMorney Magazine for helping to educate us on little known issues involving nursing homes. In an article by SmartMoney Magazine’s Lisa Scherzer and David Stires you will discover the “10 Things Nursing Homes Won’t Tell You.” Its updated and adapted from the book “1,001 Things They Won’t Tell You: An Insider’s Guide to [...]
Personal Finance Advisor: 2010 Is A Good Year To Hire One
If there is ever a year to hire a personal financial counselor it is 2010. This is the year that Congress is letting everyone – no matter how high your income – to transfer your IRA into a Roth IRA, which has many advantages and some disadvantages. This is the year that you will want [...]
Top Places In The Country To Buy Or Rent Retirement Home
Thinking about retirement in a sunny climate? The good folks at the Wall Street Journal have put a lot of work into determining where its safer to buy or to rent by comparing average rental prices with sales prices. Albuquerque: rent instead of buy, prices still likely to drop Charlotte, N.C.: renting looks like a [...]
GOP & Dems Vote To Cut Employee Pensions In New Jersey
Those who think that Connecticut’s pension debt problem for government workers is something that can be left on the back burner, may want to check out what is going on in New Jersey. New Jersey Republican and Democratic legislators enacted bills signed into Law by Gov. Christopher Christie Monday that forces all state employees to [...]
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