I’m 66 years and 4 months old. My Social Security payments start next month at $3,300 a month. I’m currently working part-time, three days per week, as a professional engineer for $95/hour for my long-time regular full-time employer of 28 years. (I want to leave this position ASAP or sooner.) I currently have about $1.6 million in retirement accounts. My wife (60 years old) has about $600,000 in various regular and retirement accounts. We have a 16-year-old daughter at home attending high school and college in a dual enrollment program. If she stays with the program she’ll have her...…I’m 66 years and 4 months old. My Social Security payments start next month at $3,300 a month. I’m currently working part-time, three days per week, as a professional engineer for $95/hour for my long-time regular full-time employer of 28 years. (I want to leave this position ASAP or sooner.) I currently have about $1.6 million in retirement accounts. My wife (60 years old) has about $600,000 in various regular and retirement accounts. We have a 16-year-old daughter at home attending high school and college in a dual enrollment program. If she stays with the program she’ll have her...WW…

Auto-enrollment may be just what Americans need to save more for retirement — but perhaps only if the government makes it a requirement.  Only half of Americans participate in a , a staggering statistic considering how much of the responsibility for funding an adequate retirement now falls on individuals. The problem: Without the financial education, encouragement or access, retirement savings isn’t always a top priority. Americans have so many other financial obligations to juggle as it is — such as rising costs of college and housing, or shorter-term goals like buying a home or...…Auto-enrollment may be just what Americans need to save more for retirement — but perhaps only if the government makes it a requirement.  Only half of Americans participate in a , a staggering statistic considering how much of the responsibility for funding an adequate retirement now falls on individuals. The problem: Without the financial education, encouragement or access, retirement savings isn’t always a top priority. Americans have so many other financial obligations to juggle as it is — such as rising costs of college and housing, or shorter-term goals like buying a home or...WW…

The stock market may have recovered from the first shocks of the pandemic, but Americans’ retirement savings might not be as lucky.  A majority of Americans — — withdrew or borrowed money from qualified retirement plans since COVID-19 first arrived in the U.S., two-thirds of whom did so to pay for basic living expenses, according to a new survey from Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine and financial firm Personal Capital. Nearly a third of the 744 respondents surveyed withdrew $75,000 or more from a retirement account, and another 58% borrowed between $50,000 and $100,000 the...…The stock market may have recovered from the first shocks of the pandemic, but Americans’ retirement savings might not be as lucky.  A majority of Americans — — withdrew or borrowed money from qualified retirement plans since COVID-19 first arrived in the U.S., two-thirds of whom did so to pay for basic living expenses, according to a new survey from Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine and financial firm Personal Capital. Nearly a third of the 744 respondents surveyed withdrew $75,000 or more from a retirement account, and another 58% borrowed between $50,000 and $100,000 the...WW…