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💰 Could guaranteed income bring more predictability to your retirement plan?

Market ups and downs can be challenging when you’re relying on retirement savings for income. Certain annuities can provide guaranteed income for life, depending on the product and payout option, helping reduce reliance on short-term market performance.

An annuity may be worth exploring if you:

✅ Want more predictable retirement income
✅ Are concerned about outliving your savings
✅ Want to help cover essential expenses
✅ Are looking to balance growth opportunities with guaranteed income

Annuities aren’t right for everyone, and products can vary widely in costs, guarantees, surrender charges and withdrawal restrictions. We can help you understand the options and determine whether an annuity has a place in your overall retirement strategy.

Retiring soon? 🎯 Preparing for retirement involves more than picking your last day of work. From creating an income strategy to making decisions about Social Security and Medicare, planning ahead can help you better understand your options.

Your pre-retirement checklist:

✅ Review your investment risk
✅ Build a retirement income strategy
✅ Review old 401(k) accounts
✅ Decide when to claim Social Security
✅ Plan for required minimum distributions (RMDs)
✅ Get ready for Medicare
✅ Compare your Medicare coverage options

Retirement brings several financial decisions together at once. Reviewing these areas before you leave the workforce gives you more time to make informed choices based on your needs and circumstances.

Ready to walk through your checklist? Let's schedule time to build your retirement plan!

⚠️ Still contributing to an HSA after age 65? Medicare enrollment could create an unexpected tax issue.

Simply turning 65 doesn’t automatically make you ineligible to contribute to an HSA. But once you’re enrolled in Medicare, you generally can’t make or receive HSA contributions, even if you’re still working and covered by an HSA-eligible employer health plan.

Here’s where it can get tricky: If you’re already receiving Social Security benefits when you become eligible for Medicare, you’re generally automatically enrolled in Medicare Part A and Part B.

And if you delay Medicare while working past 65, and then enroll later, premium-free Part A coverage may be retroactive for up to six months. HSA contributions made for months covered retroactively by Medicare could become excess contributions and may have tax consequences if not corrected.

If you plan to work past 65 and keep contributing to an HSA, it’s important to coordinate your HSA contributions with the timing of Medicare and Social Security.

A little planning can help prevent an unexpected tax headache.

Confused by this whole issue? We get it! Give us a call and we can help.

Type your income into an online life insurance calculator and it will probably tell you to buy a million dollars of coverage. Type in a different income and it will often tell you the same thing.

That is the trouble with generic formulas. They do not know whether you have three kids or none, twenty years left on a mortgage or a paid-off house, a working spouse or a single income.

A better way to think about it is to add up four things:

- Debts, including your mortgage and any loans your family would inherit.
- Final expenses, which can reach several thousand dollars or more.
- Income replacement, usually a portion of your pretax income rather than all of it.Education costs, if you have children who may go to college.

Add those together and you have a starting number that came from your actual life. Then adjust for savings, a spouse's income, and any coverage you already have through work.

Most people are surprised by the result in one direction or the other.

Have you ever run the numbers on your own coverage? If you have not, or if it has been a few years, reach out. We will walk through it with you.

If someone calls and already knows your name, your age, and your address, that does not make them legitimate. Criminals often start with information they already have and only need one more piece from you.

Medicare-related scam calls have climbed sharply over the past year. Some people report getting dozens in a single day. The pitches are predictable once you know them. Your card is expiring. You qualify for unclaimed benefits. A free brace or hearing aid is on the way.

They all want the same thing: your Medicare number.

A few things to remember: Medicare generally contacts you by mail first and does not call to ask for your Medicare number or bank information. A real licensed agent will give you their name and license number without hesitation, and will not push you to decide today.

If someone claims to be from an agency, hang up and call that agency's main number yourself. Anyone honest will not mind.

What is the strangest scam call you have received? Share it below so your neighbors know what to listen for.

Not sure whether a call you got was real? Call our office and we will tell you. 📞

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