Retirement Guide for Teachers: Social Security and More

Retirement Guide for Teachers

By Alan Haskvitz, national motivational speaker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Haskvitz

For more free links about business go to

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/teacher_law.html#3

Horace Mann Companies

https://www.horacemann.com/annuities/

Test your retirement knowledge

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1206/121506rp.htm

Retirement Resource

Links

Includes financial decisions, legal concerns, and aging and health links

http://www.nea.org/retired/tools/retirement.html

Retirement IQ test

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/calcs/n_rothq/main.asp

Earning test for early retirees

http://www.fairmark.com/retirement/socsec/earnings-test.htm

Test your knowledge on retirement

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13089081/

Life expectancy calculator

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/calcs/n_expect/main.asp

Estimating Your Retirement Income Needs

http://www.aicpa.org/financialliteracy/retirement.asp

Steps in Retirement Planning

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/ww1/14-02.html

Ten Steps to Retirement

http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/05/retirement/kansas_10stepssuccess/index.htm

Before you accept an early retirement package

http://retireplan.about.com/od/caniretire/bb/retire_early.htm

Ten questions to ask before retiring

http://retireplan.about.com/od/lifestyles/tp/retirementandme.htm

Steps to take when you are 60

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/RetirementandWills/CreateaPlan/12StepsYouMustTakeAtAge60.aspx

Printables for how much you need to retire and estimating expenses

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/finances/personal/retirement/first_steps.htm

Tax Benefits for Teachers

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p970.pdf

Women and Retirement

http://www.nea.org/money/pf050912.html

California Retired

Teachers Website

Regardless of what state you work in this site has excellent insights into the issues of retirement.

http://www.calrta.org/index.php

NEA retirement site

http://www.nea.org/retired/index.html

The impact of Social Security on Teacher Pensions

http://www.ssa.gov/gpo-wep/gpo-wep2.htm

Social Security news

http://www.nea.org/lac/socsec/latestnews.html

Understanding Social Security Benefits

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m6280/is_n2_174/ai_12469650

Social Security Retirement Earning Table

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/rtea.html

 

Teacher Salaries: By State. Includes taxes, cost of living data

Teacher Salaries

By Alan Haskvitz, national motivational speaker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Haskvitz

After five or more years of university, a well-paid position as a teacher is deserved. With this in mind, Reach Every Child has assembled the most current information concerning salaries, cost of living, and jobs available. However, due to the time it takes to collect and publish such data, most of these figures are at least three years old. Thus it is best to use this information as a starting point.

You should note the states with the highest teacher pay also have the highest cost of living. Regardless of where you work, with rising living costs, it is also a good idea to begin retirement planning. And this might be a good place to start: Horace Mann. 

The following sites deal with the latest teacher salary information, where to find jobs, scholarships, grants and a cost-of-living comparison by state. I have placed the rest of the information on this site:

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/salaries.html

It contains the following topics: Cost of living by state, education job scales, teachers pay in other countries, elementary teacher job pay, pay by state, taxes by state, salary trends and more. All free.
 
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