Study Sizes Up States' Substantial Retiree Benefit Costs
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About 90 percent of state workers get pensions, and the bill is coming due.
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A day after President Bush touted his efforts to help the elderly cope with increased medical expenses, federal officials announced the largest premium increase in the Medicare program&#39;s
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More baby boomers, and others, now have more choices about their retirement savings.
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A leading pensions research group says the basic state pension could rise to Â£105 a week without any extra cost.
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Big U.S. businesses will in general  maintain retiree health benefits next year despite fears they  would be cut to compensate for benefits to the elderly in the  new Medicare law, a survey found.
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Retirees who receive health benefits from their former employers saw premiums shoot up an average of 25 percent this year, a new study says.
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The nation's 47 million Social Security recipients got a bit of good news yesterday: their checks next year will increase 2.7 percent, or an average of $25 thanks to the program's annual cost-of-living adjustment. But looking further into the future, the news is less encouraging. A trio of forces -- higher taxes, rising medical costs, and a mandated increase in ...
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Changing benefits keep boomers working longer.
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A new regulation allows employers to establish two classes of retirees, with more comprehensive benefits for those under 65 and more limited benefits â or none at all â for those older.
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ATLANTA --Telecommunications firm BellSouth Corp. said Wednesday that the new terms of its tentative labor agreement will change how the company&#39;s contribution to retiree medical benefits is calculated and will boost benefit expenses by $3.3 billion.
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Older Americans will have to pay  about 17 percent more next year -- the largest increase in  Medicare's history -- for their government-run health  insurance, U.S. officials announced on Friday.
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Retirees with company-sponsored medical benefits face higher costs, more restrictions and different plan options as their former employers move to curb their spending on such perks, a new study said.
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Premiums for job-based health insurance jumped 11.2 percent on average this year across the nation, according to a survey released Thursday, the latest evidence of a painful rise in medical costs that is placing an increasingly heavy burden on employers
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Despite exploding costs, most Americans got sizable life-extending bang for their medical bucks over recent decades, says one of the most sweeping studies ever of health-care value.
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Retirees for a third straight year are paying double-digit increases for healthcare coverage through their former employers, which are shifting a greater
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Federal officials say rising costs, increased payments and some new benefits mean Medicare must raise its Part B premium 17% next year for most of the nearly 42 million seniors and disabled people covered by the program.
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WASHINGTON - Social Security benefits for nearly 50 million people will rise 2.3 percent starting in January, the smallest increase in four years. The typical retiree will face the challenge of using the additional $24 to cover higher costs for everything from gasoline and food to medical care.