Retirement Budgeting

Jean Chatzky, author of numerous best-selling books and financial editor for NBC's TODAY, answers frequently asked questions about how life's milestones affect your finances.

Striking out on your own for the first time is exhilarating. But in a culture full of bad advice, predatory banks, and splurge-now-pay-later temptations, it can also be extremely dangerous - leading you to make financial decisions that could hurt you for years to come. Combine this with a slumped economy, mounds of student loans, and dubious examples from reality TV stars to politicians to your own parents, and it’s no wonder so many twenty-somethings are struggling.

Does your family talk about money? Do your kids understand your money values? Do you and your mate agree on how you spend and invest your money? Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz and her father, Charles Schwab, collaborate to break through the traditional taboos surrounding money and to bring solid financial advice into the context of the family.

Social Security law has changed! Get What's Yours has been revised and updated to reflect new regulations that take effect on April 29, 2016. Get What's Yours has proven itself to be the definitive book about how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits. It is an engaging manual of tactics and strategies written by well-known financial commentators that is unobtainable elsewhere.

Jean Chatzky, author of numerous best-selling books and financial editor for NBC's TODAY, answers frequently asked questions about paying for college.

Our goal was the type of goal people roll their eyes at. It was the type of goal that most working-class families fear and dread. It was the type of goal many optimistic households envision, but all too often struggle to accomplish. It was the type of goal that puts a crippling amount of pressure and stress upon thousands and thousands of hard-working families and couples across the world. My family's goal was to become 100 percent mortgage and debt-free in five years.

If you realize that you are overspending resulting in a depletion of your savings account, it's time to keep your spending in check. It takes a lot of discipline to stick to your financial plan. However, keeping to a financial goal is not that difficult if you start with the basics. Fortunately, there are effective strategies you can adopt to make sure you follow through on your good financial intentions.

Most of us graduate high school with a basic understanding of history, math, science, and literature, but when it comes to personal finance - arguably the topic that we use most in our daily lives - we feel lost or overwhelmed. No longer! Cast aside your fear of FICO scores and your confusion about credit cards, because Scott Gamm, founder of HelpSaveMyDollars.com and student at NYU Stern School of Business is here to help.

Jean Chatzky, author of numerous best-selling books and financial editor for NBC's TODAY, answers frequently asked questions about debt.

Jean Chatzky, author of numerous best-selling books and financial editor for NBC's TODAY, answers frequently asked questions about money and life.

Jean Chatzky, author of numerous best-selling books and financial editor for NBC's TODAY, answers frequently asked questions about protecting your family's finances after your death.

Jean Chatzky, author of numerous best-selling books and financial editor for NBC’s TODAY, answers frequently asked questions about insurance.

Jean Chatzky, author of numerous best-selling books and financial editor for NBC's TODAY, answers frequently asked questions about real estate and mortgages.

Do you want to start living your life without clutter and have control over your finances? Frugal living can help you with just that! You will learn many tips and ways to save more money and spend less while living the life that you want to live. You can take control of your finances!

So far in debt you don't know what to do? Learn how to get out of debt and into the future with wealth management! Want to know the steps to get you out of debt? You need help to stay out of debt? Help to lead you to financial stability? Want to know what has worked for hundreds of debt ridden consumers? Want to learn what will work to fully fit your situation? Before you can determine what type of plan will work for you, first you need to determine the reasons you got into debt in the first place!

Think Like a Millionaire is a book from the author that brought you The Newborn Entrepreneur and Called to Affluence. This motivational book is for people with the mindset to build wealth. It unlocks strategies and vision plans that will help get you on the road to success. You can be poor, but if you follow the strategies outlined in this book, you can turn your financial situation into a very wealthy and promising future.

Jean Chatzky, author of numerous best-selling books and financial editor for NBC's TODAY, answers frequently asked questions about careers and work.

Jean Chatzky, author of numerous best-selling books and financial editor for NBC's TODAY, answers frequently asked questions about how marriage affects your finances.

Americans today face retirement with a mix of hope and trepidation. Hope—that their health will hold out long enough to let them do what they want for decades. And trepidation—that they might not have enough wealth to fund it. But creating a viable, sustainable retirement plan is easier than you think. In It’s All About the Income, award-winning financial planner and bestselling author Michael Lynch lays out a simple, straightforward system for determining when you really have enough money to call it quits.

If you’re like many future retirees in their 50s, you’re facing a milestone in the next decade that can feel like an overwhelming deadline: retirement. If you’re also a business owner or corporate executive, the pressure is greater because people outside your family depend on you. Are you prepared?