NewRetirement Retirement News Digest : December 2005 - Posts
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December 2005 - Posts

Modest exercise boosts seniors' physical abilities
Yahoo News, December 27th, 2005 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Simple exercises conducted on resistance training machines lead to a variety of favorable effects on muscle strength and performance in the elderly, Australian researchers report. Moreover, Read More
Pension problems loom for boomers
USA Today, December 28th, 2005 The trend by companies to freeze or end their employee pension plans may have a big impact on baby boomers now on the cusp of retirement. Boomers with pension plans have counted on monthly retirement checks at the Read More
Tapping home equity for cash - Reverse mortgage could go no-cap
The Cincinatti Enquirer, December 10th, 2005 WASHINGTON - Juanita and Joe Sanders of St. Louis were trying to figure out how to pay for a new roof two years ago when their son suggested a reverse mortgage. Reverse mortgages allow cash-strapped Read More
Newly Bankrupt Raking In Piles of Credit Offers
NY Times, December 9th, 2005 TACOMA, Wash. - As one of more than two million Americans who rushed to a courthouse this year to file for bankruptcy before a tough new law took effect, Laura Fogle is glad for her chance at a fresh start. A nurse and Read More
The Next Retirement Time Bomb
NY Times, December 11th, 2005 SINCE 1983, the city of Duluth, Minn., has been promising free lifetime health care to all of its retired workers, their spouses and their children up to age 26. No one really knew how much it would cost. Three years Read More
Housing Market Outlook Darkens
Rismedia, December 8th, 2006 The nation’s housing market is in a “perilous position” that could slow the broader economy, but it is unlikely that a drop in home prices will prompt a recession, according to the latest assessment of the economy from Read More
Confusion is rife about drug plan as sign-up nears
The New York Times, November 11th, 2005 Enrollment in the new Medicare drug benefit begins in three days, but even with President Bush hailing the plan on Saturday as ''the greatest advance in health care for seniors'' in 40 years, large numbers Read More
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