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Working longer is often seen as a solution to various financial and benefits-related challenges. After all, delaying Social Security benefits from the full retirement age of 67 to 70 will increase...

As the baby boomers age, it’s becoming more common for people to remain employed into their 70s and 80s. These octogenarians tell us why they still aren’t...

Americans are often advised to work longer and hold off on claiming Social Security. It's a solid plan theoretically, in that it's all part of a strategy of maximizing your eventual Social Security...

Millions of Americans in their 50s and 60s have no savings, but you do have options to improve your financial security.

The decision on whether to work longer to ensure a more comfortable retirement might become a moot point for many Americans if lawmakers succeed in raising the Social Security full retirement age. If...

The idea of working longer before claiming Social Security benefits sounds like a great retirement strategy.

"Although the peak of patents awarded are for those in midlife, there are inventors who are patenting well into later life."

As life expectancy has grown, so have rosy expectations of longer retirements. But new research suggests the reality is far more complicated. Lisa Berkman, director of Harvard’s Center for Population and Development Studies, led a team that studied the issue in a Sloan Foundation-sponsored project and produced the recent book, “Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce andAs life expectancy has grown, so have rosy expectations of longer retirements. But new research suggests the reality is far m...

The problem with working longer in life as a solution to affording retirement for a population living longer is that many, if not most, already don’t work until standard retirement age, a new book shows.

Social Security benefits will get a big cost of living hike in 2023 but inflation, stock market woes and lack of a retirement cushion still hurt many.