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"Shielding the Assets" when you think parent will remain in your home in your care My 80 year old mother had a stroke early in 2009 and spent 2 1/2 months total in rehab, mostly in a skilled nursing facility (nursing home). She hated, hated, hated the institutionalization. About month 1 1/2...

My 79 year old widowed mom was suddenly incapacitated by a stroke 1/14/2009. I''ve been running like basic headless chicken since then (my one sib winters out of state) visiting/preparing to bring her to our home when skilled rehab medicare coverage runs out. She has good LTC insurance, but...

I am a 1811 CSRS retiree (age 52) who has money in the tsp and is clueless about options for general public. However, my brother, semi-retired at age 54 after years of self employment, has about $275 in an Ameriprise SEP IRA, about 2/3 equities, 1/3 fixed income. It has a management fee of...

This could be subtitled "stop me before I do something stupid". I retired 7/3/07 :) , at age 51 from a 26 year federal law enforcement career. I am thus happily one of the (dwindling, but I hope very slowly!) civil service pensioneer tribe. I worked an "extra" year in part with the goal of...

is the Chase Cash Plus Visa that First USA bank offers. I just cashed a check for $200 - got the card in March and charged about $6600 to get the $200. The mechanism is a little funky, supposedly their system tracks every grocery, gas, & drug purchase and counts 5% for those, all else is 1%...

I guess I just don't pay much attention, so I deserve negative returns. But it still surprised me when my husband pointed out to me today that since 1999 we've put in $14,000 total ($2,000 per year) into Fidelity "Blue Chip Growth" and (I think we switched to this one after a few miserable...

Was going to put this in the "children" thread below; but my situation is a bit of a twist (very late parenthood + very early retirement). I'm 50, and retiring this August after 25 yrs gov't service, including 22 federal law enforcement (civil service pension with COLA). We have 3 kids, last...