That’s the case with proposals to raise the full retirement age for collecting benefits, which has the backing of more than 170 members of Congress.
This might have been a necessity in previous years, when you and your spouse were juggling careers.
This should be one of the first items to go whenever you need to trim your budget. Dining out is essentially a luxury — even if you have grown tired of cooking.
Retirement is the time when you need to rein in these kinds of purchases — especially with lawmakers talking about Social Security cuts.
When you were working you probably had to fit travel into weekends or around holidays — the most expensive times to hit the road.
A recent survey of 1,000 parents with kids ages 18 to 42 found that more than half (55%) still help their adult children financially.