Retirement

A surprising study of nearly 46 million Medicare patients says older residents in rural areas are more likely to have any of nine common surgeries than people in cities.

An employee benefits lawyer discusses the six most important lessons plan sponsors can learn from the Kraft 401(k) lawsuit.

NFL owners and their locked-out players are talking again

The bad economy is worsening the already-shaky finances of Medicare and Social Security, draining the trust funds supporting them faster than expected and intensifying the need for Congress to shore up the massive benefit programs, the government said Friday.

Those who weren’t heeding the warnings about a coming retirement crisis before the Great Recession hit probably are now.

House and Senate negotiators hope to resolve their differences on competing plans to reform New Hampshire's public pension system by the end of the month, at the same time the state's retirement system is experiencing a big increase in applications from retirement-eligible employees.