RETIREMENT

Tools

Retirement Calculator

How soon can you retire? Find out, and start planning.

Social Security Calculator

Use this calculator to help you estimate your Social Security benefits.

AARP Programs

Divided We Fail

The Divided We Fail effort advances the idea that partisan gridlock should not stand in the way of affordable health care and long-term financial security for all Americans.

AARP Tax-Aide

The nation's largest, volunteer-run tax counseling and preparation service.

Money Management

Money Management helps low-income seniors write checks, balance their checkbooks, create a monthly budget, or keep track of financial papers.

Retirement Made Simpler

Three trusted organizations help you help your employees retire with confidence. Learn how to automate your 401(k) step-by-step.

Worried about protecting your retirement investments? Should you buy, sell or hold? Know what the experts say.

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Tapping Social Security

By Michelle Diament

This new online tool from the Social Security Administration can help estimate your benefits.

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50-Plus and Looking for Work

By Vickie Elmer

Fired? Retired? Looking to be rehired? Here are some Web sites that focus on jobs, careers and information for older workers.

From the Online Community

Journal: Jazzman

Journal: No Longer Retired and Restless
Jazzman is coming out of retirement and returning to work as a consultant.
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Journal: pippop120

Journal: Occupying My Time
Pippop120 tackles a spreadsheet outlining his retirement plan.
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Candidates Tackle an Unlikely Target—Remaking Social Security

By Marie Cocco

Obama, McCain have offered ideas that would fundamentally remake key aspects of Social Security.

Retirement on Hold

By Carole Fleck

Jerry Wood, 69, of Wichita, Kan., was retired but, overwhelmed by the high cost of health care, returned to work.

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