Retirement Trends

The agency will pay the benefits of 4,100 current and future retirees of the bankrupt newspaper publisher.

An increasing number of retired workers are ordering just the benefits they want as companies swap out legacy insurance plans for health reimbursement accounts.

An increasing number of workers are investing in IRAs. The total number is up from 17 percent 20 years ago.

U.S. banks earned less in the July-September quarter than they did a year earlier, marking their first year-over-year profit decline since the spring of 2009 when the country was still mired in the Great Recession.

The corporation's deficit has grown to $36 billion the result of low interest rates, an up-and-down stock market and many corporation bankruptcy filings.

The Social Security Administration has found that the number of disabled beneficiaries started to increase steadily in 1990.