Should You Begin Social Security At Age 62? Although collecting early retirement benefits makes sense for some people, there's a major drawback to consider: if you start collecting benefits early, your monthly retirement benefit will be permanently reduced. So before you put down the tools of your trade and...
Social Security - Will it be there when I retire? How Secure Is Social Security? The media onslaught Watching the news, listening to the radio, or reading the newspaper, you've probably come across story after story on the health of Social Security. And, depending on the actuarial assumptions used and...
Myths and Facts About Social Security Myth: Social Security will provide most of the income you need in retirement. Fact: It's likely that Social Security will provide a smaller portion of retirement income than you expect. There's no doubt about it--Social Security is an important source of retirement income for...
Social Security Frequently Asked Questions How much did Social Security benefits increase in 2015? Answer: Social Security benefits increased this year. In 2015, nearly 64 million Americans who receive Social Security or Supplemental Security Income began receiving a cost-of-living adjustment increase of 1.7 percent to their monthly benefit payments. The...
Sometimes ignorance is leverage. A few years back, when I made the switch from one media company to another, it was precisely the lack of transparency about my salary that allowed me to more than double my salary in the process.
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Recently, there has been a push by some major digital-based companies towards salary transparency. The current thinking―one that is very much based on the ethos of Internet that the more we know, the better―is that open books will result in an even the playing...