Depending on your age and your employer, a defined benefit pension could significantly shape your retirement outlook. The ...

The current retirement planning environment has shifted substantially over the past few decades. Pensions, once a staple of retirement income, are now far less common. According to the Federal Reserve ...

Invest time and money now for an early warning system, to help prevent or mitigate serious conditions down the road and save ...

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently emailed over 2 million federal employees an offer to pay eight months of salary in exchange for resignation. Initiated by the newly launched ...

For many American workers, a defined benefit pension plan is an artifact that has gone the way of phone booths, cassette tapes and percolator coffee. But millions of federal and state government ...

The more money you're able to save for retirement during your working years, the more comfortable your senior years might be. And it's important to have income to supplement your Social Security ...

One way to mitigate this issue is to keep some portion of your portfolio in cash or short-term bonds to meet short-term needs ...

December 2, 2025 — AARP Foundation's Senior Vice President for Litigation William Alvarado Rivera testified before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce's Subcommittee on Health, ...

Planning for retirement often focuses on maximizing income, but the fate of pensions after death is a crucial, yet often overlooked, aspect of estate planning. While the state pension typically ends ...

The future adequacy of pensions remains under pressure in the EU. Women continue to receive significantly lower pensions than men. Large disparities in pension levels persist across countries. View on ...

A lump sum, on the other hand, gives you full control of the money, allowing you to invest it — potentially earning higher ...