Financial Planning / Retirement Questions

Home equity loan — Tap into IRA to pay it off?

My wife and I have approximately $108,000 to pay on our home equity loan. It is a variable rate based..

Medicare IRMAA Adjustment Downward?

Hi Terry! I am new to Medicare as of this year, September 2022. I am being charged a very high..

I bonds

Hi. I am 77 and my husband is 93. Is it a good idea for us to buy these bonds...

Estate Planning

Planning your Estate How can I get copies of the documents> Thanks

401K Transfer to Traditional IRA

This is a two part question. I recently retired, and I have closed out my 401K. Fidelity wouldn’t do a..

Financial plan/estate plan

I am 78 years old, am retired on Social Security, live alone, have no children or heirs, and am living..

Social Security Mistakes

Dear Terry, I don’t have a question. I just wanted to say how much I agree with your article in..

Roth IRA

I am 60. I stopped contributing to my roth ira on a friends advice. Should I start contributing again

Social Security Benefits – Should I be worried?

Hi Terry – I regularly listen to you on WGN and read your newsletter. My wife and I started taking..

Social Security Benefit Estimate and Recent Inflation

Hi Terry. Thanks for your commonsense advice. My wife and I are always happy when we catch your segment on..

Revocable Living Trust

Does each spouse have their own revocable living trust using their own social security number or does one trust cover..

Living Will

Both my husband and I have the Illinois Statutory Short Form Power of Attorney for Health Care. How is this..

Extra Social Security Deposit

I listen to you every week on the WGN John Williams show. I find it very interesting and informative. I..

social security widow’s benefit

My husband passed when I was 60. I began collecting my benefit at age 62 and was told by the..

Extra payment from Social Security

Some people received an extra money from Social Security this month. It wasn’t a full payment. My boss and his..

Social Security extra payment in my account this month

I did listen to you on The Business Report with John Williams this past Wednesday. By any chance did you..

RMDS for IRA and Conversions to Roth after you start taking RMDS.

I will be 72 in May 2023. I understand my RMD set on Dec 31, 2022. Is that recalculated each..

SS Cola

I’m age 69 and planning on drawing my ss benefit at age 70. However, with the pending COLA for ss..

Plan your estate event on October 14, sponsored by Aetna

Please clarify what you said about what needs to be changed in a trust if you move to another state...

Rollover Simple IRA

I have around 100,000 50/50 Income Fund of America 306 and Balanced Fund 311. Will rollover to my Fidelity 401k..

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