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HELENA, Mont.-- A bill that has been signed into law by Montana Gov. Mary Caferro, D- Helena, requires life insurance companies to check a Social Security Administration file at least twice a year to find out if any of its policyholders have died. The bill passed the Senate 48-1 and the House 92-4, and was signed into law Friday.
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HELENA, Mont.-- A bill that has been signed into law by Montana Gov. Mary Caferro, D- Helena, requires life insurance companies to check a Social Security Administration file at least twice a year to find out if any of its policyholders have died. The bill passed the Senate 48-1 and the House 92-4, and was signed into law Friday.
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CHICAGO, Mar 26- Intel Corp.. Intel isn't the only company to experiment with this type of retirement transition program. Hewlett-Packard Co is a founding sponsor of the program and Goldman Sachs Group Inc has also participated.
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CHICAGO-- Any fix for Illinois' nearly $100 billion pension mess should include provisions that the state make its full pension payment yearly and address cost-of-living increases and retirement age, Gov.
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A new survey finds Boomers' fears about finances have abated, with nearly a quarter of them feeling more secure than they did 12 months ago.
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Social Security retirement program for the next 75 years. Assistant Senate Democratic leader Dick Durbin said the panel would be modeled after the "Simpson-Bowles" deficit-reduction commission that made recommendations to Congress at the end of 2010, but failed to garner enough support to push its comprehensive budget savings through Congress.
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CHICAGO, March 19- The economic recovery is not helping Americans shake a bad case of the retirement jitters.
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President Obama is warning that it may be impossible to reach a deal with Republicans on trimming the budget deficit.
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Pope Benedict XVI's retirement package – the first the Vatican has offered in almost 600 years – is a sweet deal by the average American senior's standards.
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NEW YORK, Feb 19- Sandy Harsh never expected to find herself with $16,800 in credit-card debt and her retirement dreams drifting farther away. Harsh, an IT professional from Tuscola, Illinois, is 62, around the age at which a lot of people start actively planning to retire to a white-sandy beach with a frozen margarita in hand.
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New York, Feb. 7- We've all said it, or at least we've heard it: the claim, made either happily or wearily, that we are never going to retire. They are people like George Middleton, 61, a certified financial planner in Vancouver, Washington, who loves his job and says he expects to keep working as long as possible.
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NEW YORK, Feb 6- Employers are getting smarter about how they run retirement plans. David Huntley, principal at HR Consultants in Baltimore and publisher of "The 401 Averages Book" talks about these and other trends. Kids don't seem to think about Social Security, but they are aware that saving is important.
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A new study found that Americans support increases in payroll taxes and taxing higher incomes for Social Security, but want minimum benefits and cost-of-living adjustments to be increased too.
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CNBC's John Harwood reports House Republicans are going to propose to extend the debt limit until April 15; and Max Richtman, National Committee to Preserve Medicare; and Bill George, Harvard Business School professor, debate whether eligibility for these programs should be raised to age 70.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 16- A business group of top executives on Wednesday proposed reforms to Social Security and Medicare that would raise the enrollment age for both programs to 70 but not raise Social Security taxes paid by upper-income Americans.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 16- If you like your 401 retirement savings account, you're going to love what healthcare reform does to your employer-provided health care plan.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 15- States are not alone in racking up massive public pension bills: U.S. cities need hundreds of billions of dollars to make good on their promises of retirement healthcare and income to workers. Omaha, Nebraska, Portland, Oregon and Providence, Rhode Island were all at 50 percent or below.
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What happens if the U.S. does not get the spending cuts, and where is the U.S. economy headed in the next 10 years? Alan Simpson of the Fix the Debt Campaign, provides perspective.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 15- AARP, the powerful lobbying group for older Americans, urged political leaders on Tuesday to pursue so-called entitlement reform as part of a wide-ranging discussion about healthcare costs and retirement security rather than as a narrower deal on deficit reduction.
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CNBC's Eamon Javers explains why the agency needs more money.
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Peter Keith, Piper Jaffray analyst, explains how the payroll tax is impacting Americans' income.