Retirement Central – Life Stage Articles fom DCU
Retirement Central is a service DCU provides you with articles that contain information you may find useful for different life stages. Whether you're just starting a career, or already in retirement, the decisions you make today will help to shape your future. Explore some of the key topics you should consider at various life stages to help ensure a successful retirement.
The links below take you a series of articles and resources based on that life stage.
Congratulations – you made it here! The first step toward financial security in retirement is taking the time to learn about your current financial situation and saving options. Americans live longer and retire earlier nowadays.
If you're currently setting aside money for retirement, you've taken the critical first step. Good for you! But now is not the time to rest on your laurels. It's time to revisit and refine your saving strategy to ensure you can financially support the type of retirement you've always dreamed of.
Getting married is a momentous occasion. There are few things more meaningful than being committed to one person, and planning a life as one. While you are looking forward to the wedding celebration and immediate joys of formalized coupledom, marriage is also an opportune time to dream about and anticipate your future together by creating a plan for financial security in retirement.
And baby makes three! By now, you've probably heard every snippet of advice you could ever want (and some that you could do without) regarding your new baby. However, most people will spare you the details of one baby-related subject – finances – and that's probably because they themselves are unsure of what advice to give!
Congratulations! You've accepted a new job with exciting challenges (hopefully). You may have taken a position with a new company, decided to branch out on your own, or maybe you've decided to become a stay-at-home parent. This may be your chance to advance professionally and move closer to your career objective, or to redirect your skills and experience.
We live in a constantly changing economy. Corporate reorganizations, global competition and new technologies affect all of our lives. Oftentimes such events lead to company downsizing.
Life's events can bring on high volumes of stress and, unfortunately, divorce or legal separation is one of those events. There are many issues people must deal with when going through a divorce or legal separation.
If you are the beneficiary of retirement savings, either from an employer-sponsored retirement plan or from an IRA, you may feel compelled to take the money and run. What should you consider?
Admit it, unless you have a Type A, workaholic personality, you've dreamed of what life would be like free from the drudgery of dragging yourself to work day in and day out.
Isn't it great? You're finally at that point in your life where you can see the retirement light at the end of your career tunnel. You're about five years from calling it quits, give or take a few years.
You've made it to retirement – to the victor go the spoils! How can you enjoy your new found freedom to its fullest? Here are seven common sense, but highly effective, steps that will increase your chances of remaining healthy and really living in retirement
The links below take you to a series of articles and resources on a number of subjects of interest from Retirement Central, as well as financial calculators.
Answers to the most commonly asked retirement planning questions, including beneficiary designation, distribution options and rollovers.
Answers to the most commonly asked employer sponsored retirement plan questions.
Answers to the most commonly asked questions about Social Security retirement benefits.
Answers to the most commonly asked Medicare and Medicaid features.
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