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- Health Reform Law's Pre-Existing Condition Plan Kicks In (7/16/10)
- Court Again Rules That Part D Recipients Must Repay Mistaken Refunds (6/24/10)
- How Risky Is Buying a Limited-Duration Long-Term Care Insurance Policy? (6/8/10)
- Social Security Adds New Online Medicare Application (5/20/10)
- Steps to Take in Advance of Death or Disability (4/29/10)
- Investigative Report Questions Five-Star Rating System for Nursing Homes (4/28/10)
- Health Reform: What Changes Are in Store for the Elderly? (4/8/10)
- Demise of Estate Tax Could Have Serious Consequences for Spouses (3/2/10)
- Social Security Calculator Now Available to Delayed Retirees (2/23/10)
- Things To Remember At Tax Time (2/5/10)
- Congress Lets Estate Tax Expire, But May Act Retroactively (1/12/10)
- Pre-Paid Funeral Plans: Buyer Beware (1/6/10)
- End Of Year Tax Planning Considerations (12/8/09)
- Bank Pays Price for Refusing to Honor Request Made Under a Power of Attorney (12/8/09)
- No Change In Medicaid Spousal Impoverishment Standards for 2010 (11/12/09)
- Switching Medicare Plans If You Move (10/28/09)
- IRS Issues Long-Term Care Premium Deductibility Limits for 2010 (10/19/09)
- New Web Site Promotes Senior Volunteer Opportunities (8/28/09)
- SSA Agrees to Stop Suspending Benefits Based on Existence of Arrest Warrant (8/26/09)
- Useful Financial, Retirement and Personal Calculators Available on the Web (7/30/09)
- Getting Cash From a Life Insurance Policy If You Are Terminally Ill (7/27/09)
- Accounting for Gifts and Loans to Children in Your Estate Plan (6/23/09)
- Requiring Adult Children to Pay for Aging Parents (6/23/09)
- You May Be Able to Claim Social Security Benefits Now and Claim More Later (6/23/09)
- Don't Fall for the 'Certified Copy of Your Deed' Swindle (6/15/09)
- Be Aware Of The Dangers Of Joint Accounts (6/1/09)
- Nearly Two-Thirds Face Risky Retirement Due to Long-Term Care Costs (5/19/09)
- Financial Downturn Coupled With Changing Estate Tax Rules Mean It's Time to Review Your Estate Plan (4/20/09)
- What The Stimulus Bill Means For The Elderly (3/6/09)
- Do You Have The Right Fiduciary? (2/24/09)
- Retirement Home Can Force Resident to Move to Higher Level of Care (2/18/09)
- New Tax Break Helps Surviving Spouse (4/3/08)
- 10 Million Boomers Will Develop Alzheimer's, Report Predicts (3/21/08)
- Why Not Just Use an Off-the-Shelf Power of Attorney Form? (2/28/08)
- Preventing A Will Contest (1/18/08)
- Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits So Early? (11/6/07)
- New Medicare Premiums (10/5/07)
- What is Required of an Executor? (8/20/07)
- Should You Sign a Nursing Home Admission Agreement? (7/3/07)
- Charitable Gift Annuities (6/4/07)
- How to Choose a Nursing Home (4/10/07)
- Medicaid Recovery of Home Catches Many Families by Surprise (1/5/07)
- Coordinating Medicare and Employer Coverage (12/26/06)
- When Should You Take Your Social Security Retirement Benefits? (10/6/06)
- How to Reduce Long-Term Care Insurance Costs (8/1/06)
Useful Financial, Retirement and Personal Calculators Available on the Web
Last Updated: 7/30/09
The Web has spawned many miracles, and one of them is the creation of online calculators that can give consumers answers to complex questions in seconds based on their specific circumstances. Want to know whether a traditional or a Roth IRA is better for you, how much life insurance you need, or what your life expectancy is? Here are links to a goldmine of useful online calculators from around the Web:
- TimeValue Software offers a number of financial calculators. You can, for example, calculate whether to refinance your home, how long it will take to pay off a credit card, or how much your IRA will be worth at retirement. Meanwhile,CCH provides more than 100 calculators covering a variety of topics, including mortgages, debt, investments, retirement, taxes, savings, and insurance. Another site with several useful calculators is MyCalculators.com, which offers tools for retirement, savings and 401(k) calculations, among others.
- If you want to know what your estate tax liability will be, this calculator from Dinkytown.net can help you figure that out. Calculators on this site can also help determine the balance of a reverse mortgage and calculate how much life insurance you need.
- SmartMoney.com also has a calculator to help you assess your life insurance needs.
- Met Life has a Social Security Decision Tool that uses graphics, charts and a simple questionnaire to spell out the implications of taking Social Security retirement benefits early as opposed to waiting until your full retirement age.
- Living to 100 is an online quiz designed to calculate your life expectancy. After taking the quiz, you also can get tips and advice for improving your life expectancy.