Are your retirement plans on track, or derailed?
Pollster Gallup says that for the first time this decade more non-retired Americans doubt they will have enough money to live comfortably when they retire. Some 52 percent say they won’t have enough money, 41 percent say they will.
So what happens if you reach retirement age and you haven’t saved enough? What happens if you were depending on the sale of your home to fund your retirement and suddenly your home isn’t worth very much or won’t sell?
Do you alter expectations? Keep working? Join a commune? Move in with your kids?
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