Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Getting your adult children to think about their own retirement savings plans is an uphill battle — particularly in this lousy economy. But longevity could make it in your best interest to push them on the point. You don’t want to be 80 years old and scraping together money to help your 60-year-old child cope

Reader Lou Rose responded to yesterday’s post about retired Professor Robert Pritchard’s suggestion that Social Security eliminate penalties for working and collecting between age 62 and full retirement age. He wrote that he and his wife were working past full retirement age — 66 — in order to save at least a year’s worth of