Planning for retirement is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make. As you approach retirement age, gaining a clear understanding of your Social Security benefits is essential ...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced last week that it will roll out a new “paperless” retirement application for use across the federal government next month. This initiative is part of ...

Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits. Today’s post addresses how restricted applications just for spousal ...

The Office of Personnel Management still uses paper applications for federal retirement benefits, a low-tech practice that the Government Accountability Office said is a big factor stymieing the ...

As the convergence of wealth, retirement and benefits at work gains momentum, the essential issue is how to help employees who can't afford traditional ongoing financial planning. That's more than 95% ...

About two months ago, I got a question from a reader that I had never received before. (And believe me, that is unusual. I thought there wasn’t a single Social Security-related question I haven’t been ...

Five years before “Bill” retired as a civilian Navy employee on Dec. 31, 2020, he started plotting his retirement strategy. He relied on training he received from seminars, written publications, and a ...