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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RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 29, 2013
Coming to Gen-Xers in retirement: Downward mobility

The Great Recession did a number on retirement savings of Generation X; early boomers, not so much.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 26, 2013
Avoid getting undone by the do-over strategy

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 19, 2013
Financial insecurity awaits Gen Xers in retirement

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 16, 2013
Personalizing estimates of health care costs

Individual profiles are key to garnering more-accurate spending figures

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 16, 2013
Retirement Income Summit 2013 - Mary Beth Franklin: Home schooling long-term care

Dr. Carolyn McClanahan shares her personal vision of aging in place

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 13, 2013
Sometimes, cash now is better than more cash later

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 13, 2013
Tackling online accounts for Social Security a pain

The Social Security Administration last year stopped mailing annual estimated-benefit statements to workers 25 and older, a service it began in 1999

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 08, 2013
Alzheimer's epidemic puts advisers — and their practices — at risk

The number of Alzheimer's sufferers in the U.S. is expected to triple by 2050. Mary Beth Franklin warns that the coming epidemic puts advisers -- and their practices -- at serious risk.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 07, 2013
Leading Social Security software seller comes down on price

SSanalyzer responds to competition and segmented market needs

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 05, 2013
Social Security software firm offering new service levels

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