Healthcare

Retirement can sneak up on you.

In one of its final acts of 2022, Congress approved a massive year-end spending bill that includes the long-anticipated retirement savings package known as SECURE Act 2.0.  

Set against a backdrop of outsized inflation and a wildly volatile stock market, the threat of a recession is enough to make almost anyone feel uneasy.

More Americans are retiring earlier than you might think

Have you made any resolutions for New Year’s?

A 2018 study estimates that just over half of Americans age 34 to 65 won't run short of money in their retirement years. They're the fortunate ones. Unfortunately, on the flipside, that means just under half will run short of money.

For a rapidly growing share of older Americans, traditional ideas about life in retirement are being upended by a dismal reality: bankruptcy.