A 10-Year Retirement Planning Checklist

Are you ready to retire? Have you even started a retirement planning checklist? By 2030, one out of five Americans will be retirement age. Every baby boomer will be over 65, and the vanguard of Generation X will be close on their heels. If you’re on the back end of your fifties today, you’re in the final stretch of the rat race.

“This is the opportunity to correct any past mistakes and do the planning needed for a secure retirement,” says David John, senior strategic policy adviser at AARP’s Public Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. “Even if you’ve done nothing, there’s still time to put yourself on a sounder footing.”

Think you're behind the eight ball? There's no need to panic. You may even find that you have saved more than the average for your age in your 401(k) account or IRA account.

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