Bankroll Your Future Retirement with Help from Uncle Sam: How Government Perks and Policies Can Affect Your Income, Your Healthcare, Your Home, and Yo

by Ellen Hoffman

A seasoned Uncle Sam watcher and Money magazine contributor offers an easy-to-read, essential guide to retirement and financial decision-making. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557044627
• ISBN13: 9781557044624
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Informative Reference Manual

As a group benefits manager in a mid-size company, I recommend anyone over age 55 read this book. The chapter on Medicare has important information that the average person does not understand. Paying out-of-pocket medical expenses can be costly and can take a big bite out of retirement funds. It can also be difficult to get information from Federal government agencies especially in layman's language. I enjoyed reading the book and found it concise and informative. I will recommend the book to my friends as a quick reference manual to have on hand.

Bankroll Your Future Retirement With Help from Uncle Sam

This book has been enormously helpful to me and my family. It is especially useful in helping to solve complicated financial problems facing an elderly parent. Bankroll explains things in a way that is easy to understand and provides in-depth information that I can use. This book points out key issues that I would have otherwise missed that relate to social security and Medicare. In addition, it provides information on state programs like QMBY that I had never heard of before reading this book.Between taking care of an elderly parent, work and family, there isn't time to search the web seeking possible answers to difficult financial problems. This book gets my five stars. Pam P.

The Guide to Get More & Keep More for Your Retirement

'Bankroll Your Future' is the primer for what you need to know about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Pension Plans and tax aspects of retirement planning. The resource listings alone are worth the price of the book. Hoffman's knowledge of the field provides phone numbers and addresses which I did not find in weeks of research. The examples are easy to follow and cover a wide range of situations. Everyone in the US who plans to retire should read this book.

Great Bargain!

Ellen Hoffman's new book is loaded with useful information -- all of it accessible and easy to understand. And for those of us who might be filing our taxes er...late, the appendix is terrific!

If you are planning retirement, buy this book.

I am at that age where there's alot fewer years ahead than there are behind. To wit, I am at a time when I must be plotting my financial survival beyond my professional career. Ellen Hoffman's BANKROLL YOUR FUTURE is a terrific compass with which to navigate these choppy and often confusing waters! For those of us fuzzy about the ramifications of government programs like social security and medicare, Hoffman clarifies and updates us in language that is clear and accessible. Likewise, she explores and illucidates issues relating to pensions, tax deferred retirement savings, invests and more. For those of us coming to grips with our financial survival in our retirement, Hoffman's book is a gift. She writes about subjects which would otherwise give me a migraine in a accessible fashion.Fortified with Hoffman's book, I am much further down the road towards planning and understanding my financial future.