Mary Beth Franklin

Mary Beth Franklin is a Contributing Editor at Investment News specializing in Social Security, Medicare and Retirement income. She has been a financial journalist for more than 40 years, covering everything from federal budget and tax policies as a Capitol Hill reporter for United Press International to consumer finances as a writer and editor at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Mary Beth became a Certified Financial Planner in 2015 and is an in-demand speaker at conferences for financial professionals as well as a frequent guest on numerous radio and television programs. She is the author of “Maximizing Your Social Security Retirement Benefits” and host of the Retirement Repair Shop podcast. In her free time, Mary Beth likes to read, garden, ski and play the piano. She received a BA in Communications from American University in 1975 where she continues to mentor journalism students.

Mary Beth Franklin
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Social Security makes a statement with virtual benefit estimates
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 14, 2012
Social Security makes a statement with virtual benefit estimates

Important financial planning tool now available online

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 04, 2012
Star adviser Evensky on board with retirement specialist designation

Joins Board of Governance of RIIA's retirement income designation program

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 03, 2012
Social Security and the single retiree

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 03, 2012
Mary Beth Franklin: The $6 trilllion sleeper issue

Representatives of big business and big labor, academics and consumer advocates, and key leaders gathered to discuss a dirty little secret: America's retirement system is broken.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 02, 2012
Avoiding a retirement 'tax torpedo'

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 10, 2012
Advisers: Let me coach you on Social Security claiming-strategies

IRI agrees SS claiming strategies are crucial to a holistic retirement income plan. Send your SS questions to me and I'll post my answers.

Bleak retirement survey reveals silver lining for financial advisers
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 10, 2012
Bleak retirement survey reveals silver lining for financial advisers

Americans who work with financial advisers are more conficent about their retirement prospects.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 10, 2012
No. 1 retirement concern: Fear of the unknown

The latest Retirement Confidence Survey is out today. For the 22nd year, the Employee Benefits Research Institute and Matthew Greenwald & Associates have asked American workers about their retirement dreams and concerns

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 25, 2012
Buckets vs. systematic withdrawals

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 14, 2012
Social Security meets a brave new world

Supreme court considers request for Social Security survivor benefits for twins born 18 months after father's death.