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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Health care costs can sink a retirement plan
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 29, 2014
Health care costs can sink a retirement plan

Advisers need to get ahead of the 'other' retirement crisis and plan for likely expenses.

How to calculate Social Security's maximum family benefit
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 25, 2014
How to calculate Social Security's maximum family benefit

Believe it or not, claiming benefits early sometimes makes sense.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 24, 2014
How to calculate the maximum family benefit from Social Security

A young family can change the equation, so that claiming early makes sense.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 22, 2014
How to put Millennials on pace for retirement

One mom's advice: If you don't start saving now, your old age is going to look like college, ramen noodles and all.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 22, 2014
Retirement: From theory to practice

Husband's retirement ushers in a new era for <i>InvestmentNews</i> contributing editor.

Big demand from advisers for Social Security claiming tools, training
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 22, 2014
Big demand from advisers for Social Security claiming tools, training

But few are willing to pay for it.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 16, 2014
Updated book is an essential guide to Social Security

Veteran Social Security Administration employee shares how retirement, disability and survivor programs work.

Reduced earnings late in career might not reduce Social Security benefit
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 15, 2014
Reduced earnings late in career might not reduce Social Security benefit

Top 35 years of earnings, not final years, determine monthly amount.

Social Security planning comes to the workplace
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 09, 2014
Social Security planning comes to the workplace

Social Security planning has taken a giant step into the workplace, and retirement planning may never be the same. Mary Beth Franklin calls the addition of claiming strategies to retirement income tools a possible game changer.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 07, 2014
An editor tests the reality of retirement: 24/7 togetherness

More than half of working retirees report taking a break from work when they first retired, as Mary Beth Franklin's husband plans to do.