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Retirees face the risk of outliving their money
Until recently, retirement planning focused mostly on helping workers accumulate savings. Now, the Treasury Department is tackling another aspect: making sure retirees don't run out of money. The department last week proposed two regulations to make...Tags: Insurance, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Retirement Planning Services, 401K, MetLife Incorporated
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Moves to lower your tax bill
Death and taxes might be certain, but the latter changes each year. Even without major tax legislation — thanks, political gridlock — taxpayers need to be aware of even slight adjustments that could benefit them as they prepare their returns....Tags: Personal Data Collection, Colleges and Universities, Interior Policy, Colleges and Universities, Social Security
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Laurel-area elected officials oppose O'Malley's plan to shift teacher pension costs to counties
Laurel-area elected officials last week denounced Gov.Martin O'Malley's proposal to shift more of the responsibility for teachers' retirement costs to local jurisdictions. "I believe this shift will have a dramatic impact on our budget in 2013 and into...Tags: Rushern Baker, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Teaching and Learning, Interior Policy, Prince George's County
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Baltimore County pension windfall should be investigated
Thank you for exposing the "sweetheart pension deal" that Baltimore County officials Kevin Kamenetz, Stephen G. Samuel Moxely, Vincent J. Gardina and Arnold Jablon, are receiving. For these county officials to draw or bank retirement benefits while...Tags: Local Government, Towson, Interior Policy, Interior Policy, Kevin Kamenetz
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How does your savings rate measure up for your age?
How much in savings and investments should you have by age 35 or 45? Or, for that matter, at 65 when you're likely to be near retirement? If you don't know, you have plenty of company. So many figures are bounced about that it's often difficult for...Tags: Homes, Finance, Retirement Planning Services, 401K, T. Rowe Price
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Make moves now to lower next year's tax bill
Year-end tax planning these next several weeks will be refreshingly straightforward for a change. The past few years have been fraught with so much uncertainty about income tax rates, estate taxes and expiring deductions that planning wasn't easy. A year...Tags: Disasters, 401K, Charity, Energy Saving, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Incorporated
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City faces $52 million shortfall in coming year
Baltimore officials have identified a $52 million budget shortfall next year, and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration is eyeing pension costs and other benefits after years of significant cutbacks to city programs and worker salaries to...Tags: University of Baltimore, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, Finance, Interior Policy
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U.S. Labor Dept. sues BBH over failure to produce records
The U.S. Department of Labor is suing Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc. and Chief Executive William "Kris" Hathaway for allegedly failing to turn over payroll and retirement account records that had been demanded by federal investigators, the agency...Tags: Baltimore Behavioral Health, Pratt Street, Health Insurance, File Sharing, Hospitals and Clinics
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City leaves disabled firefighters, police with nothing
All the politicians in this city get wonderful pensions, but the people who risk their lives and health to protect their fellow citizens get nothing. I have been retired from the Baltimore City Fire Department for 14 years. I have a medical disability...Tags: Health Insurance, Colleges and Universities, Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare
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Winging it: A man retires, an Odd Bird is hatched
Ken Beerbohm always wanted to be an artist.
With a visit to the large basement studio in his Long Reach home, filled with dozens of intricate and undoubtedly unique clay and wire sculptures, it would be easy for any art lover to believe he’s...Tags: Synthetics and Plastics, Artists, Chemicals, Fine Arts, Sculpture
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Longtime recreation leader runs popular after-school program
The dozens of children who spend their after-school hours at the Stanton Community Center in downtown Annapolis can find help with homework, or a game of basketball. They get a bag lunch and assistance from a friendly group of volunteers.
But the most...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Housing and Urban Planning, Morgan State University, High School Sports, Entertainment Events
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Blue collar blues: Working hard, planning ahead and getting nowhere
This poor economy has destroyed any hopes of a level playing field for blue collar, working class people like me. Only possessing a high school diploma and a skilled trade (barber), I knew that over my lifetime that I would probably not earn the same...Tags: Finance
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