Besides cutting its funding deficit nearly in half in 2017, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.s single-employer insurance program should run a surplus within the next decade, PBGC says.

Pew found that 31 percent of private-sector employees it surveyed were not at all familiar with their retirement plan's fees.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid will be increasing Medicare Part A premiums $9 per month in 2018, holding the 'standard' Medicare Part B premium steady, and letting the premium many enrollees actually could rise sharply.

Nearly a quarter of older adults in the U.S. said that in the past year they had not visited a doctor when sick, skipped a recommended test or treatment, not filled a prescription or skipped medication doses because of the cost.