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It’s Getting Harder to Qualify for Social Security Benefits in Retirement. Here’s the Reason Why To qualify for Social Security benefits, you need to accumulate 40 work credits in your lifetime. You can accrue a maximum of four credits per year. The value of a single work credit is rising in 2025, so part-time workers…

Forget the 4% Rule? Here’s What You Should Really Be Looking at During Retirement. Everyone’s retirement is different, but we all have a common goal: ensuring our retirement savings last long enough. The 4% rule is arguably the go-to guideline for determining how quickly you can spend your savings. It states that a retiree can…

Mortgage Rates Forecast For 2024: Experts Predict How Much Rates Will Drop Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors’ opinions or evaluations. Mortgage rates have finally settled into a downward groove—at least for now. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate declined significantly in August…

Using a Reverse Mortgage to Pay Off Debt For homeowners 62 and older who have accumulated debts that create a financial strain, there’s another option beside traditional home equity loans or home equity lines of credit. It’s a reverse mortgage. You’ve probably seen TV commercials about it, but you may not understand exactly what reverse…

If You Need Cash in Retirement. Retirement & Financial Planning Report. FEDWEEK Reverse mortgages allow homeowners to tap home equity even if they can’t sell their home; this can supplement retirement funds. While hopefully your plan for funding your retirement will provide what you need, you may find that you have needs for cash that…

To Reduce the Risk of Retirement Portfolio Exhaustion, Include Home Equity as a Non-Correlated Asset in the Portfolio. By Philip Walker; Barry H. Sacks, Ph.D., J.D.; and Stephen R. Sacks, Journal of Financial Planning: December 2021 Executive Summary Financial planners have long regarded diversification and asset allocation as essential tools for reducing portfolio risk for their clients.…

How Much Can Retirees Spend On March 11, 2020? It May Not Be What You Think Turbulent market volatility and declining interest rates are leaving many people wondering about the viability of their retirement plans. Given where markets are today, will you have enough to meet your retirement spending goals? Many financial planner have and…

How options for housing in retirement have evolved Don Garman, Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Mirador Capital Partners, predicts a changing financial landscape in years ahead and tells retirees that when investment returns aren’t necessarily able to ensure a comfortable existence in retirement alone, they may need other ways to supplement income. There’s one…

New Figure Hire Emphasizes Retirement, ‘More Accessible’ Home Equity Tapping Figure Technologies, providers of alternative home equity tapping tools including a sale leaseback offering that is competitive with traditional reverse mortgages, announced a new hire last month that expands the company’s positioning as a vendor of tools that can help seniors in funding their retirement.…

Why Open A Reverse Mortgage Before It’s Needed? I have been preaching this sermon for years and some financial planners have started to listen. Open the Reverse Mortgage early in life and let the line of credit grow. The Elder Care publication (NAELA) wrote a front page article last spring call Long Term Care Insurance…