The personal finance author and radio host explores one way of transitioning to retirement and collecting Social Security.

Finally, Ramsey argues that a person can outperform the Social Security system by taking benefits as early as possible, at ...

Despite his disdain for the social safety net, he believes seniors should start taking benefits at a specific age to come out ...

Ramsey has several reasons for his strategy. Firstly, he argues that the only way to know the perfect age to start taking Social Security is if you know the day you will die. If you’re likely to live ...

Getting a handle on the average Social Security check by age can help you fine-tune your retirement. As of November, about 59 million retired workers receive monthly benefits from the Social ...

If you have income from multiple sources in retirement, such as pensions, withdrawals from retirement accounts or side jobs, you may have to pay taxes on part of your Social Security benefits.

Applying for Social Security benefits is the easy part. You can apply online, by telephone or at your local Social Security office. The hard part is deciding when to apply for your Social Security ...

You can collect unemployment and Social Security benefits simultaneously, but doing so could impact your taxes. If you apply for Social Security before full retirement age, expect your monthly ...

The situation is so bad, the Ramsey Solutions team, in a recent blog post on finance guru Dave Ramsey’s site, called it a “disaster.” “This debt disaster has become way too serious to ...

One way to do that is with a high-yield savings account. As noted on RamseySolutions.com, “High-yield savings accounts offer much better interest rates than traditional savings accounts—as ...