What Is a Traditional IRA? A traditional individual retirement account (IRA) is a retirement savings account that lets you invest pre-tax income to save for retirement. The key feature of this ...

For schemes where unmarried partners are permitted to be beneficiaries, they need to be named as such on the nomination form: however, a third (33%) of cohabitees have not yet named the ...

Aliss Higham is a Newsweek reporter based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her focus is reporting on Social Security, other government benefits and personal finance. She has previously extensively covered U ...