Here’s how to estimate your monthly Social Security income in retirement.
In 2024, the average Social Security benefit is $1,862 per month, while the maximum for those retiring at full retirement age is $3,822. Achieving the maximum requires earning the taxable maximum for 35 years.
“Living in Thailand offers numerous benefits, including amazing weather, great food, friendly people, substantially reduced costs of living, and greater opportunities for adventure or a change of pace from one’s home country.”
“Erickson’s death highlights a deepening crisis for aging Americans who lack a safety net. In California, people over 55 are the fastest-growing group of unhoused individuals, with two million seniors struggling to afford housing, health care and other basic needs, with millions more nationwide. The problem is especially severe in high-cost metro areas in the West and Northeast, including Seattle, Denver and Boston, as well as in New York and Los Angeles. But housing costs outpace affordability for many seniors in areas including Dallas, Houston and Minneapolis-St. Paul.”
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Opinion: I think you could live really comfortably in Thailand on $1,800 a month.
“An eye-popping study conducted by US Army Intelligence and made public by the CIA has shocked social media with its finding that consciousness transcends space and time. Entitled ‘Analysis and Assessment of The Gateway Process,’ the 29-page report was drafted in 1983. The recently resurfaced US Army Intelligence report presents an abstract explanation of how consciousness is created through the brain’s processing of energy in the physical world – transforming it into what Lieutenant Colonel Wayne McDonnell compares to a hologram.”
