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Best Retirement Decisions

Retirement is a major life transition that impacts your finances, health, and even your social life. Use these tips and ideas to help you navigate this exciting yet challenging time.

The Best Places to Retire

Moving to a new location in retirement can provide better weather and more fun things to do. Selecting a low-cost locale can also improve your retirement finances.

Best Places to Retire for Under $40,000

The 10 Sunniest Places to Retire

10 Places to Retire on Social Security Alone

10 Fast-Growing Retirement Spots

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401(k)s

Making the most of your 401(k) will help your money grow.

10 Ways to Pay for Retirement
How to Retire With $1 Million
12 Important Retirement Planning Deadlines
6 Ways the Financial Crisis Changed How We Invest

IRAs

IRAs can help you build a nest egg while minimizing taxes.

Claim This Last-Minute Tax Break
Why You Should Open a Roth IRA
How Your Investment Choices Compare to Your Peers

Social Security

Make the most of your benefit using these tips and strategies.

How the Chained CPI Affects Social Security Payments
Places Where Workers Pay the Most Into Social Security
How Working in Retirement Affects Your Social Security Benefit
10 Things Everyone Should Know About Social Security

Medicare

Learn about health care options available to you in retirement.

How to Budget for Health Costs in Retirement
10 Things Everyone Should Know About Medicare
How to Choose a Nursing Home
How Retirement Expectations Differ From Reality

Aging & Longevity

Ideas and advice to help you live longer and stay healthier.

The Ideal Retirement Age
7 Unusual Places to Retire
5 Ways to Avoid Outliving Your Retirement Savings
An Innovative Way to Face Retirement

Baby Boomers

This massive generation is beginning to transition into the retirement years.

The Baby Boomer Retirement Crunch Begins
Why More Americans Are Working Past Age 65
Best Places to Retire for Under $40,000
How to Get Senior Citizen Discounts

Second Careers

Retirement from one career is often just the beginning of a second act.

Great Places to Launch a Retirement Career
How Job Hopping Hurts Your Retirement Savings
Why You Should Plan to Work Until Age 70
Coordinating Retirement With Your Spouse
How to Make Your Home Ready for Retirement

These simple changes could make your house safer and help you stay in it longer.

5 Things You Must Know Before Renting Overseas

Use these techniques to avoid a bad rental experience abroad.

4 Ways to Calculate Your Retirement Number

There are a variety of ways to determine how much money you will need in retirement.

Leaving a Legacy in Retirement

Retirement can be a time to reflect on how you will be remembered.

5 Tips for Savvy Target-Date Fund Investing

Target-date funds continue to soar in popularity in 401(k) plans, but investors shouldn’t be passive.

Living a Good Life Includes Preparing for Death

Psychotherapist Margie Jenkins says settling financial and legal issues before death can be comforting.

Markets Believe Interest Rates Are Headed Up

Retiree investors should proceed with caution, for the long-awaited increase in rates may be at hand.

Now's the Time to Tackle Tax Reform

With declining federal deficits, pressure for Congress to act on loopholes and entitlements has eased.

The Oldest Baby Boomers Launch Their Retirement

Half of the oldest baby boomers have already retired.

4 Things You Should Know About Social Security’s Trust Funds

How the Social Security system’s finances will impact your payments.

4 Reasons Gen X Will Struggle in Retirement

Generation X could be the first group to be worse off than their parents in retirement.

How to Live to 100

Why do some people live long, healthy, and happy lives, while others struggle with dementia, heart disease, and depression? Learn how to protect yourself from those outcomes based on the latest research on health, longevity, happiness, and finances in the U.S. News ebook.

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