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Full retirement age varies by birth year and is 67 for those born in 1960 or later. Claiming Social Security before FRA reduces benefits while delaying increases them. Working after FRA doesn't ...

Nontraditional approaches, such as life insurance settlements, can provide tax-efficient lump sums for retirement. Buffered ETFs protect against market losses while allowing some upside participation.

However, most people also end up falling short of that target. The few who actually reach their retirement savings goal usually took small, repeated actions that accumulated into a wealth-building ...