It also mandates that the postal service prefund the PSRHB (postal service retiree health benefits) fund.
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With so much uncertainty, it is far from an ideal time to be a retiree.
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Patrick Collins, a 62-year-old retiree of the Chicago police force who lives in Sharon, Wis.
This taxing dilemma often pops up for the typical retiree at the most inconvenient time.
On the other hand, what would you tell a new retiree about making new friends?
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Sadly, the only thing left is to cut retiree payouts, something Judge Klein has left open.
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For an especially risk-averse retiree, it may allow acceptance of a more risky portfolio.
It establishes an independent trust fund to manage billions of dollars for retiree health care.
Be careful of investing in companies that have substantial retiree obligations and declining businesses.
Ideally a retiree should seek out states and areas where land and construction costs are affordable.
General Electric ran into a buzz saw for failing to publicize retiree Jack Welch's perks.
The foreman, a 63-year-old retiree, said he was able to put the defendant's fame aside.
Blankenship is covered by the insurance her husband gets as a retiree from his former employer.
Wild swings are among the reasons John Smith II, a 76-year-old retiree in Smyrna, Ga.
The reality for each retiree is that success will be either 100% or 0%.
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More for defense (which, in theory, means jobs) and less for the poor and retiree healthcare.
It also gives the retiree some time to reap the joys of his labor.
Most importantly, leverage is a double-edged sword and could have dire financial consequences for a retiree.
"There is no other choice but Romney, " said Jim Greger, 74, an Illinois retiree.
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We are rapidly evolving into a country with the largest, best-educated retiree investor population in the world.
Richard Acosta is a 75-year-old retiree in Stockton and said everywhere he looks there are for-sale signs.
However, funding for retiree health care and other benefits is even scarcer than it is for pensions.
Most of the mail agency's financial woes come from mounting mandatory costs for future retiree health benefits.
Speaking after a news conference, he said the union would take over responsibility for retiree health care.
"You can't miss them in the recordings, but I never heard them before, " says the 60-year-old WorldCom retiree.
In addition, the retiree may be able to score a deduction by donating older furnishings, cars or clothes.
Forty years ago in Japan, one retiree was supported by ten active payers of social insurance levies.
When the program was founded in 1965, there were over 4.6 taxpayers contributing for each retiree.
But what had happened was there was a huge shortfall in the value of retiree health care benefits.
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