Get a clear estimate of your future Social Security income. Follow these five steps to review your records, calculate benefits, and prepare for retirement.

To plan smart for retirement, estimate your Social Security benefits years before you'll need the money. Here's how to do it.

It's difficult to determine exactly how much money is enough to retire comfortably. Households earning $50,000 or more will need about 80 percent of their pre-retirement earnings to maintain their ...

How much money will you need to fund your retirement? Do you know the exact number, or even a ballpark amount? This was a question posed by Tony Robbins. According to various reports, about half of ...

The Social Security Administration’s Retirement Estimator gives you an automatic estimate of your Social Security benefit based on your actual earnings history, showing calculations for three key ages ...

Financial planners recommend saving around 75% of your pre-retirement income for retirement. Using the 4% rule, you can calculate how much you need to save in total.

13 years ago, the SSA introduced a site where you could find all your Social Security information in one place. This site makes it easy to see how much more you'll need to save or invest to meet your ...

Katharine Paljug is a financial writer and editor with over a decade of industry experience. Her writing has covered nearly every aspect of the financial world, from investing in forex to paying for ...

It pays to calculate RMDs (Required minimum distributions) as you approach retirement or if you are already retired. RMDs are the minimum annual withdrawals you must make each year from most ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Vernon, FSA, helps retirees make their money last for life. Can you afford to retire if you have $1 million in savings? As ...