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A New Roadmap to Financial Longevity

Jean Chatzky,

AARP

Published April 03, 2026

Jean Chatzky

"Jean Chatzky nails the fear so many people are carrying: you can do 'everything right' for decades and still have no clue how to turn your savings into a paycheck you can count on for life. The Forever Paycheck is the clear, step-by-step plan that will help you stop guessing, stop stressing, and start using your money with confidence. I'll be sending copies of this book to my friends and my kids."
—Mel Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Let Them Theory and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast

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A comfortable retirement is the American dream. Yet only 8% of people feel it’s easy to achieve. Even if you have been saving money in your retirement accounts for decades, there are endless questions: Do you have enough money to retire? At what age? How much can you withdraw per year, and how? With lifespans longer than ever, are you at risk of running out of money? Longtime on-air financial editor on the TODAY show and personal finance columnist for AARP, Jean Chatzky has a new solution to consider: Capitalize on the power of a paycheck to build a retirement you love.

There are different factors that impact what savings and planning strategies are best for you—including tolerance for risk, interest in the markets, fear of missing out, and more. With quizzes, stories, and examples from her own life and real people, Chatzky demonstrates how you can identify your own money personality and build the retirement plan that fits your goals and preferences. Filled with insights on the changing landscape of financial products and practical advice for how to actually use them, The Forever Paycheck is packed with the information you need to plan for the future you want.

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"Jean Chatzky is one of the greatest financial educators of our time, and this book can help anyone make sense of one of life's toughest problems: funding and enjoying retirement."
—Morgan Housel, New York Times bestselling author of The Psychology of Money and The Art of Spending Money

"The Forever Paycheck demystifies the hardest problem in personal finance: how to turn a pot of savings into a reliable stream of retirement income. Packed with concrete strategies, this book is a treasure trove for retirees aiming to maximize their lifestyles and make their money last."
—Christine Benz, author of How to Retire and director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar

"Jean Chatzky has built the playbook the personal finance industry should have written a generation ago. The Forever Paycheck takes the question every retiree quietly carries—am I going to be okay—and turns it into something you can actually engineer."
—Bill Perkins, author of Die With Zero

"Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy many things that contribute mightily to a happy life. In this clear, compelling, and practical guide, Jean Chatzky shows us how using our money to fund a Forever Paycheck can help us create the happiest retirement possible."
—Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Life in Five Senses

Jean Chatzky is the CEO of HerMoney.com and host of the podcast HerMoney With Jean Chatzky. The financial editor of NBC Today for 25 years and personal finance columnist for AARP, she appears frequently on CNN, MSNBC and was a recurring guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author. Her latest book is Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve. An in-demand motivational speaker and fierce advocate for financial literacy, in 2015, she partnered with the PwC Charitable Foundation and Time for Kids to launch Your $, an in-school magazine that reaches 2 million school children each month.