The Biggest Mistake in Trusts: Funding
November 25, 2020
Your real estate holdings, life insurance, bank accounts and retirement savings won’t magically flow into your trust.
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Your real estate holdings, life insurance, bank accounts and retirement savings won’t magically flow into your trust.
If you are the parent of a person with special needs, you are well aware that the role you play is very different than it may be for other children. Properly planning to meet their financial needs, both in the immediate and long term, is a critical part of supporting your child. This support must often continue well past the typical age of adulthood, which means parents need to put in place financial tools to care for their children, in the event of the parents’ death.
Are you among the millions of workers who have fallen behind on retirement savings?
The Social Security Administration announced last month that the cost-of-living adjustment for retirees receiving Social Security benefits would increase by only 1.3 percent in 2021, the second year in which adjustments had been lower than the year before.
A trustee is a manager of assets in a trust. The grantor creates the trust and appoints the trustee. A trustee has a ‘fiduciary duty’ to serve the grantor and not benefit personally.
Building enough wealth to sustain yourself in retirement is a monumental achievement. However, financial planning doesn’t end when you no longer rely on a paycheck.
Estate planning generally focuses primarily on lifetime protection and post-death distribution of assets. Special needs planning focuses primarily on the individual beneficiary’s lifestyle and care needs.
Do you expect your parents to leave you a financial legacy? Nearly half of working-age Americans assume that they will receive an inheritance that will support them later in life, according to a survey by financial services company HSBC. Perhaps the bigger question, though, is how to even approach this topic with your parents.
Here is a closer look at the seven biggest changes to Social Security in 2021.
Financial burdens on caregivers and the elderly were announced by the National Institute on Aging among its top research priorities through 2025.
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