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How to Choose a Medicare Advantage Plan

Jim T. Miller | Posted 05.31.2012

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I'll be 65 in a few months -- Medicare enrollment age -- and am interested in getting a Medicare Advantage plan to cover my health care and prescription drugs. Can you give me some advice on choosing a plan?

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How Older Workers Can Help Your Business

The Huffington Post | Rieva Lesonsky | Posted 05.21.2012

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Everyone’s buzzing about how Gen Y is taking over the workplace, but the offices of the future are more likely to be populated by older, not younger...

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Going Dutch

Michael Hodin | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Retirement Age, European Debt Crisis, Baby Boomers, The Hague, Aging Population, Retirement, Netherlands, Aging-and-Retirement, Dutch, Ageing, Austerity, Fifty News

If the Dutch can manage to bring their forward-thinking social sensibility together with their fiscal prudence, they may end up setting a model that the rest of Europe and the world can follow.

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A Graceful Exit: How to Retire Happily

David Geller | Posted 04.24.2012

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There are three keys to happiness for everyone -- regardless of wealth or social standing

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Paid Work -- Long Past 65 -- Can Benefit Everyone

Frank Koller | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Aging, Society, US Economy, Business, Retirement, Management, Retirement Age, Vita Corporation, Business News

Founded in 1932, and still a family-run business, Vita began to concentrate 20 years ago on hiring workers nearing -- and even past -- the traditional retirement age of 65. The average age of the 49 current employees is 73 -- a few are over 90.

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This Is Mostly A Fantasy

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.10.2012

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For most Americans, retirement is more fantasy than reality. Just 14 percent of Americans say they are very confident in their ability to retire co...

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The Harley, Rugby, And Other Signs I'm In Denial About My Age

Chris Carey | Posted 04.23.2012

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My wife Mary and I recently celebrated our 60th birthdays. I recognized that I wasn't dealing particularly well with the transition. Here are six ways I have been in outright denial about my age.

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Life & Happiness: Can I Afford To Retire?

Huff/Post50 | Laura Rowley | Posted 04.14.2012

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Figuring out if you can afford to retire can be as tricky as the game of golf. Huff/Post50's Laura Rowley has a few tips....

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Among GOP Candidates, Not a Single Friend of Social Security

Daniel Marans | Posted 02.18.2012

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The Strengthen Social Security Campaign has created a guide evaluating the "friendliness" of six Republican candidates, "Among Republican Candidates, Not a Single Friend of Social Security."

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The Post 50 Jobs Bust

online.wsj.com | Posted 12.19.2011

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Many older Americans fear they will be working well into their 60s because they didn't save enough to retire. Millions more wish they were that lucky:...

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Perry on Social Security: A Newer, Softer Version of a Conservative Idea

Robert Pozen | Posted 01.03.2012

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Despite some good suggestions on benefit reform, Perry's proposal on the revenue side would hasten the day when Social Security becomes insolvent. We need to fix Social Security, not to bankrupt it.

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When Would Jesus Retire?

David Briggs | Posted 12.10.2011

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Today, the religious community faces a renewed challenge in a continuing recession to meet the needs of older clergy while making room for younger leaders.

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Where's The Gold In The Golden Years?

Mary Lloyd | Posted 11.29.2011

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Sorry, folks. We've been scammed. For decades we've been dedicating our lives to our jobs on the premise that when we retire, we can do nothing and life will be bliss. It's a lie.

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WATCH: Thriving As We Age: Tim Carpenter Reinvents Retirement

Posted 11.29.2011

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How did we get to a place where we dislike aging so much? That’s the question EngAGE founder Tim Carpenter poses to his audience in this clip fro...

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For Many, Retirement May Have To Postponed Until Their 80s

The Huffington Post | James Sunshine | Posted 08.10.2011

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If you were thinking of retiring in your sixties, think again. And according to a new study, even seventy is pushing it. The study by the Employee ...

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Government: Bad Economy Has Shortened Life Of Social Security, Medicare

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 07.13.2011

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WASHINGTON — The bad economy is worsening the already-shaky finances of Medicare and Social Security, draining the trust funds supporting them f...

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At Social Security Rally, Working Americans Burst Beltway Bubble

Daniel Marans | Posted 05.30.2011

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The deterioration of wages and benefits in the private sector is one reason why Social Security has never been more important.

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Why Any Deal to Cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid Would be a Moral, Economic and Political Disaster

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.28.2011

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Those who wring their hands about the long-term budget deficit act as if the deficit problem is intractable, and conveniently forget that only a decade ago President Clinton left office with federal surpluses as far as the eye could see.

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GOP Senator Proposes Increasing Social Security Retirement Age 'Every Several Years'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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A week after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declared that cutting Social Security is off the table, a leading Republican senator proposed ...

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Raising Retirement Age Hurts The Poor, Say Government Auditors

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Raising the retirement age for Social Security would disproportionately hurt low-income workers and minorities, and increase disabi...

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Durbin Defaults

Curtis Black | Posted 05.25.2011

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If a politician's promises can be seen as a contract with the voters who support him, Durbin has defaulted with his position on the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan.

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Scoring a Fiscal and Social Win-Win

David Bank | Posted 05.25.2011

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As policymakers tackle the national debt, they should invest in a national asset: the talent of older adults seeking to put their experience to work in their encore careers.

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Deficit Commission: Cut Taxes For Wealthy, Raise Retirement Age For All

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The president's deficit-commission report, scheduled for a vote by the full panel on Friday, proposes to slash tax rates for corpor...

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Social Security Cuts Are Part Of Deficit Plan

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR and TOM RAUM | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A painful package of spending cuts and tax increases drew sharp challenges from both the left and right on President Barack Obama's...

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Raising Retirement Age and 'Death Panels'

Saul Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The higher the retirement age, the shorter the lives of retirees. That, of course is one way of saving money; widows and widowers don't cost taxpayers as much as a retiree who lives a full life and draws a full benefit.

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