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GuideRay Okonkwo27 Sept 20267 min

Read Your Social Security Statement Backward

Everyone looks at the monthly number first. The page that decides that number is the one most people skip.

What to do with the pension you stopped thinking about

Retirement money on video

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Retirement Talk4 Jan

The Basics of Retirement Income Planning

Retire Confidently | Anthony Saffer & Alex Okugawa3 Oct

The PERFECT Retirement Income Plan (Step by Step Guide)

Kevin Lum, CFP®20 Jul

Top 3 Retirement Income Methods EXPLAINED!

GuideRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20266 min

How to draw down your savings without running out

The order you spend from, the rate you spend at, and the years you spend it in matter more than which funds you picked.

The retirement account with your name on it, not his

You can put $7,000 into your own IRA this year without earning a dollar. Here's how the spousal IRA works and what people get wrong.

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BRO TakeFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

What survives when you check the Blue Zones birth records

A demographer went looking for the paperwork behind the world's oldest people and found burned archives, pension fraud and bad math. Some of it still holds.

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Money6 min read

Retirement accounts and the one question that sorts them

401(k), IRA, Roth, HSA, SEP. Strip the alphabet soup and it comes down to who taxes the money and when.

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GuideNewsJosh Halloran23 Sept 20266 min

What a Veteran's Family Can Claim, and the Forms That Do It

DIC, survivor pension, CHAMPVA, tuition money, burial honors. None of it shows up unless somebody in the house files the paperwork.

GuideRetirementRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

What to Ask Before You Sign an Annuity Contract

The dinner is free, the brochure is glossy, and the contract is ninety pages. Nine questions that tell you what you're actually buying.

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GuideTradesRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

Your Knees Are Not a Retirement Plan

Nobody's handing a self-employed electrician a gold watch at 65. Here's how to build the pension yourself, starting with this week's deposit.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideCryptoRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

Putting crypto in a retirement account without wrecking it

Spot ETFs, self-directed IRAs, checkbook LLCs and the 401(k) brokerage window, with the fees and rules that actually bite.

GuideRetirementRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

The Beneficiary Form Beats Your Will Every Time

A one-page form you filled out years ago decides who gets your retirement money, and most people have never looked at it since.

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GuideMoneyRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20265 min

An index fund is a list and a machine that buys the list

No jargon, no hype, just what you're actually buying, what it costs, and the arithmetic that decides how it turns out.

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GuideRetirementRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

Move Your Old 401k Without Handing the IRS a Check

The difference between a clean rollover and a surprise tax bill usually comes down to one phrase you say on the phone.

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GuideRetirementRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

Required minimum distributions don't have to wreck your tax year

The IRS eventually wants its cut of that 401(k). Learn how RMDs work, what the first year does to people, and the moves that soften the hit.

GuideMoneyRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20265 min

Your payslip, your tax code, and where the money went

Most people check the bottom number and file the rest. The other lines are where the errors hide, and they're usually yours to catch.

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GuideRetirementRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

What Part-Time Work Does to Your Social Security Check

The earnings test isn't a penalty, the money comes back, and the real traps are hiding in Medicare and your HSA.

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Pension Choices, Lump Sum or Monthly Check

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How One-Income Families Make Retirement Work

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GuideRetirementRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

Claiming Social Security At 62, 67 Or 70

The same work record can pay three very different checks for life. Here's how the math works, and the question most couples forget to ask.

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Retiring Early And The Bridge Years Nobody Plans For

Leaving work at 55 means a decade before Medicare and years before you can touch an IRA without a penalty. That gap is the whole job.

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Retirement money in BRO Seniors

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Read Your Social Security Statement Backward

The Medicare deadlines that cost real money if you miss them

Marrying again at seventy without splitting your family

When to start your pension, and what waiting really pays

What to charge when you start consulting on what you know

What to do with the pension you stopped thinking about

Worth an hour of your evening

How to draw down your savings without running out

The retirement account with your name on it, not his

What survives when you check the Blue Zones birth records

Retirement accounts and the one question that sorts them

What a Veteran's Family Can Claim, and the Forms That Do It

What to Ask Before You Sign an Annuity Contract

Your Knees Are Not a Retirement Plan

Putting crypto in a retirement account without wrecking it

The Beneficiary Form Beats Your Will Every Time

An index fund is a list and a machine that buys the list

Move Your Old 401k Without Handing the IRS a Check

Required minimum distributions don't have to wreck your tax year

Your payslip, your tax code, and where the money went

What Part-Time Work Does to Your Social Security Check

Pension Choices, Lump Sum or Monthly Check

How One-Income Families Make Retirement Work

Claiming Social Security At 62, 67 Or 70

Retiring Early And The Bridge Years Nobody Plans For