Taking The Mystery Out Of Retirement Planning

Savings Fitness: A Guide to Your Money and Your Financial Future • In Spanish

Top 10 Ways To Prepare For Retirement • In Spanish

Women And Retirement Savings • In Spanish

What You Should Know About Your Retirement Plan • In Spanish

Other Publications That Might Be Of Interest

• Investing and Diversification

• A Look at 401(k) Plan Fees [View]

• FAQs for Reservists Being Called to Active Duty [View]

• QDROS: The Division of Pensions Through Qualified Domestic Relations Orders [View]

Calculators

Here are some helpful tools employees can use to calculate how much money an individual will need at retirement:

• Taking The Mystery Out of Retirement Planning - This publication with interactive worksheets is designed to help individuals ten years or less away from retirement see if their retirement savings are on track.

• CNN Money - This retirement planner helps you estimate how well your savings program is preparing you for retirement. First it helps you figure out how much you'll need. Then it tells you your chances of getting there.

• American Savings Education Council - The Ballpark Estimate is an easy-to-use, one-page worksheet that helps you quickly identify approximately how much you need to save to fund a comfortable retirement. The Ballpark Estimate takes complicated issues like projected Social Security benefits and earnings assumptions on savings, and turns them into language and mathematics that are easy to understand.

• National Association of Securities Dealers - These financial calculators are meant to provide you with some of the information necessary to make sound financial decisions and to plan for the future.

Build Wealth At Work

Radio Actualities

Description: Secretary Chao comments on the “Build Wealth at Work” retirement security initiative.
Speaker: Elaine L. Chao (Secretary of Labor)
Available Formats:

• 06/30/04 Audio Clip: MP3 (161 KB) • WAV (6,857 KB) (00:00:37)

• 07/01/04 Audio Clip: MP3 (290 KB) • WAV (4,568 KB) (00:00:24)

• 07/02/04 Audio Clip: MP3 (347 KB) • WAV (5,481 KB) (00:00:29)

Public Service Announcements

• Do You Want An Extra $100,000? [Text Version] • [Graphic Version]

• How Can You Earn 100% Return On Savings? [Text Version] • [Graphic Version]

• Are You Passing Up Free Money? [Text Version] • [Graphic Version]

• Over 50? Want To Save Some More For Your Retirement? [Text Version] • [Graphic Version]