Medicare is funded by the Social Security Administration. Which means it's funded by taxpayers: We all pay 1.45% of our earnings into FICA - Federal Insurance Contributions Act - which go toward ...

Not until you reach retirement age. Typically that's 65, though many pension plans allow you to start collecting early retirement benefits as early as age 55. If you decide to start receiving ...

When you opt for a monthly annuity in retirement, you have two choices: to get payments that last for the life of just one person - you - or payments that last for the lives of both you and your ...

After AT&T broke up into “Baby Bells” in 1984, many of those spin-offs have since come back together. Source: AT&T, FCC, LA Times, Telecom Digest Credit: Jose Pagliery and Dominic Aratari ...

The longtime head of HP's technology-solutions group in Asia is the company's go-to person in the region. She oversees 16,000 employees across the continent and is responsible for generating about ...

Ah, the question everyone loves to debate. It's true that Social Security will soon start paying out more benefits than it receives in contributions, as the bulk of the baby-boom generation phases ...

These days, Daymond John is best known as the impeccably dressed star investor of reality show Shark Tank, but his reputation -- and his millions -- were first made as the co-founder and chief ...

Use these recommended mutual and exchange-traded funds to construct a portfolio that’s built to last. When Money magazine introduced the MONEY 70 list in 2007, the investing landscape sure was ...

Not very. The percentage of workers in the private sector whose only retirement account is a defined benefit pension plan is now 4%, down from 60% in the early 1980s. About 14% of companies offer ...

No. Some investment companies sell annuities without charging a sales commission or a surrender charge. These are called direct-sold annuities, because unlike an annuity sold by a traditional ...

Due to erroneous job, cost-of-living, and test score data for a small number of places, two cities were left off this year's top 100 and two were mistakenly included. Other cities moved up or down ...

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