Social Security Benefits and Unemployment In this edition of “Ask Kip,” Kiplinger’s Personal Finance editors explain the connection between Social Security benefits and unemployment crises ... [Read More] 3/9/2022 | By Jackie Stewart and Rocky Mengle, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Tips on Planning for Parents’ Care Lisa Gerstner, contributing editor at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, looks at an issue that is trickling down to millennials: planning ... [Read More] 3/2/2022 | By Lisa Gerstner, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Six Inflation-Fighting Strategies: Remember to WIN! Baby boomers and their elders lived through the inflationary period of the 1970s and early 1980s. Remember the red WIN ... [Read More] 2/23/2022 | By Jill Schlesinger, CFP
State Tax Breaks for Seniors Tax editor at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Rocky Mengle, discusses state tax breaks for seniors – tax-friendly states for retirees, less ... [Read More] 2/16/2022 | By Rocky Mengle
Making Retirement Savings Last Sandra Block of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance offer practical suggestions on making retirement savings last – including the classic 4% rule. ... [Read More] 2/2/2022 | By Sandra Block
Your Retirement Savings Number Isn’t Magic Don’t get too hung up on a retirement savings number, counsels Kiplinger’s Personal Finance writer Katherine Reynold Lewis. She suggests ... [Read More] 1/26/2022 | By Katherine Reynolds Lewis
Financial Recommendations for 2022 for Retirees and Others Business analyst Jill Schlesinger, CFP, looks at what’s new in 2022, including Americans’ financial moods. She gives financial recommendations for ... [Read More] 1/19/2022 | By Jill Schlesinger, CFP
Peer-to-Peer Payment Apps: What You Need to Know Used to be, if we owed money to friends – say, we ate out together or a friend picked up ... [Read More] 1/14/2022 | By Lisa Gerstner, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
BBB Warns of COVID-19 Test Scams The BBB serving Central Virginia warns of COVID-19 test scams: scammers sell fraudulent coronavirus tests that give inaccurate results, while ... [Read More] 1/6/2022 | By BBB Serving Central Virginia
Retirement: How to Lower Taxes on Your RMDs Sandra Block, senior editor at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, examines two ways to lower taxes on your RMDs – required ... [Read More] 1/5/2022 | By Sandra Block