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• Social Security Solvency  Friday, 31 May 2013 | 1:01 PM ET

  

  CNBC's Eamon Javers reports on changes made to Social Security and Medicare. Social Security now has resources sufficient to cover benefits until 2033.

• COLUMN-Boomers aren't working forever, after all Thursday, 30 May 2013 | 9:29 AM ET

  More than half the oldest boomers- those born in 1946- had fully retired by the end of the year in which they turned 66, the age the Social Security Administration pegs as "full retirement age," according to a new survey by the Metlife Mature Marketing Institute.

• YOUR MONEY: How to see the world and 'arbitrage' your retirement Friday, 17 May 2013 | 8:29 AM ET

  NEW YORK, May 17- In the financial world, arbitrage is a trading strategy that earns profit by exploiting price differences between markets. "That's the way we look at it," says Prescher, who lives with his wife, Suzan Haskins, in an apartment with a view of Mount Imbabura. "

• New Rule Signals Kiss of Death for Pensions Friday, 3 May 2013 | 8:15 AM ET

  

  A little known rule change is signaling just how meaningless the retirement vehicle has become.

• Tallying the Cost of Having Your Data Hacked Wednesday, 1 May 2013 | 1:38 PM ET

  

  An estimated 120,000 cases of fraud will rise from a single, huge data breach last year, resulting in more than $3,300 in losses, on average, for each victim.

• China's Weak Social Safety Net  Wednesday, 1 May 2013 | 3:00 AM ET

  

  One of the biggest challenges facing Beijing's new leadership is how to spread the benefits of growth to every citizen.

• Rare Bipartisan Accord: Social Security 'Fix' Stinks Tuesday, 30 Apr 2013 | 11:20 AM ET

  

  President Obama's proposal to slow Social Security spending by calculating cost-of-living increases differently has given conservatives and liberals something in common: they hate it.

• Stern Advice - Have fun now, retire later Wednesday, 24 Apr 2013 | 3:41 PM ET

  WASHINGTON, April 23- By the time you are nearing the pre-retirement years, you've probably heard all that nose-to-the-grindstone advice hundreds of times: Work longer. Plow as much as possible into your 401 because you might live to be 100 and you'll need that money later. Most notably, those from fund and 401 company T. Rowe Price Group Inc..

• 4 Ways to Maximize Your Social Security Benefit Wednesday, 24 Apr 2013 | 2:34 PM ET

  

  Thanks to Social Security's complex rules, many recipients find out how to maximize their benefits only after it's too late to change their elections.

• AARP Responds to Commerce Criticism  Friday, 12 Apr 2013 | 7:32 AM ET

  

  Robert Romasco, President of AARP, defends the organizations stand on social security reforms and the impact of entitlement program on the nation's growing deficit problem.

• UPDATE 6-Obama budget aims to kick start deficit-reduction talks Wednesday, 10 Apr 2013 | 10:12 PM ET

  *Plan would trim Social Security retirement program. WASHINGTON, April 10- President Barack Obama proposed a $3.77 trillion budget on Wednesday that combines controversial cuts to social safety net programs with tax increases on the wealthy in a package the White House hopes will jumpstart deficit-reduction talks.

• UPDATE 4-Obama budget aims to kickstart deficit-reduction talks Wednesday, 10 Apr 2013 | 1:11 PM ET

  *Cuts to Social Security retirement program loom. WASHINGTON, April 10- President Barack Obama proposed a $3.77 trillion budget on Wednesday that combines controversial cuts to social safety net programs with tax increases on the wealthy.

• Immigration Reform: What's It Going to Cost? Tuesday, 9 Apr 2013 | 3:54 PM ET

  

  Claims that reform would boost the economy are challenged by those who say costs in job losses and spending on social programs would be too high a price.

• Chained CPI: What It Is and How It Will Affect You Monday, 8 Apr 2013 | 4:22 PM ET

  

  President Barack Obama is expected to formally propose a controversial change in how the government calculates inflation for Social Security and other federal benefits.

• Social Security Cuts: Hard to See 'as Humane' Monday, 8 Apr 2013 | 11:09 AM ET

  

  President Barack Obama's budget plan would change how increases in Social Security benefits are calculated. Experts say that could be devastating to recipients who need cost-of-living adjustments to survive.

• Boomers Feeling (Slightly) More Secure Monday, 25 Mar 2013 | 7:26 AM ET

  

  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.

• U.S. Senator Durbin to push Social Security reform commission Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 1:59 PM ET

  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.

• Obama: Political Gap May Be 'Just Too Wide' for Deal Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013 | 12:11 PM ET

  

  President Obama is warning that it may be impossible to reach a deal with Republicans on trimming the budget deficit.

• How the Pope's Retirement Package Compares to Yours Thursday, 28 Feb 2013 | 7:51 AM ET

  

  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.

• YOUR MONEY-Boomers face credit-card quandary as economic doldrums bite Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013 | 8:30 AM ET

  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.