Why are Social Security benefits taxed? Government needed more revenue for both Social Security and Medicare. Policymakers rationalized (correctly) that beneficiaries did not pay for
Category: Retirement
Pensions, saving and planning for retirement, pension laws
Congressional pensions – don’t believe most of what your read
Social media often pontificates about members of Congress receiving their pay for life, or overly generous pensions. Neither is true. What is not mentioned are
Ten Years Retired – and guess what I learned
Ten Years Retired Richard Quinn | December 28, 2020 I STARTED WORK in 1961 as a mailroom boy earning $1.49 an hour. There was a fellow named
You’re on your own
Consider the following regarding retirement: Most private sector workers never had a pension plan Of those that did, many never became vested, or work for
