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Bankroll your Future: How to Get the Most from Uncle Sam for Your Retirement Years--Social Security, Medicare, and Much More

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'Bankroll Your Future' is the primer for what you need to know about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Pension Plans and tax aspects of retirement planning. The resource listings alone are worth the price of the book. Hoffman's knowledge of the field provides phone numbers and addresses which I did not find in weeks of research. The examples are easy to follow and cover a wide range of situations. Everyone in the US who plans to retire should read this book.

I am at that age where there's alot fewer years ahead than there are behind. To wit, I am at a time when I must be plotting my financial survival beyond my professional career. Ellen Hoffman's BANKROLL YOUR FUTURE is a terrific compass with which to navigate these choppy and often confusing waters! For those of us fuzzy about the ramifications of government programs like social security and medicare, Hoffman clarifies and updates us in language that is clear and accessible. Likewise, she explores and illucidates issues relating to pensions, tax deferred retirement savings, invests and more. For those of us coming to grips with our financial survival in our retirement, Hoffman's book is a gift. She writes about subjects which would otherwise give me a migraine in a accessible fashion.Fortified with Hoffman's book, I am much further down the road towards planning and understanding my financial future.

This book has been enormously helpful to me and my family. It is especially useful in helping to solve complicated financial problems facing an elderly parent. Bankroll explains things in a way that is easy to understand and provides in-depth information that I can use. This book points out key issues that I would have otherwise missed that relate to social security and Medicare. In addition, it provides information on state programs like QMBY that I had never heard of before reading this book.

Between taking care of an elderly parent, work and family, there isn't time to search the web seeking possible answers to difficult financial problems. This book gets my five stars. Pam P.

As a group benefits manager in a mid-size company, I recommend anyone over age 55 read this book. The chapter on Medicare has important information that the average person does not understand. Paying out-of-pocket medical expenses can be costly and can take a big bite out of retirement funds. It can also be difficult to get information from Federal government agencies especially in layman's language. I enjoyed reading the book and found it concise and informative. I will recommend the book to my friends as a quick reference manual to have on hand.

Like a lot of people planning for retirement my husband and I have been shopping for a good book that will show us the ropes and help us reach our goals.

THIS BOOK IS NOT IT!!!

It's a sloppy combination of old advice that's pasted together in an incoherent manner.

Hard to read. Even harder to follow.

No pot of gold at the end of this unicolor rainbow.

Several government agencies, including Social Security, will give you the information in this book and you won't have to pay one cent for it. (If you don't want to go to their office, you can ask them to send you brochures or visit their web site.) Or you can go to a financial web site.

Anyone of any age who is trying to save up for retirement should not have their money used up frivolously on half-baked books containing nothing but old advice like this one. How many times can this author dip into people's pockets in exchange for the same old advice that she's given in her other books?

Ellen Hoffman's new book is loaded with useful information -- all of it accessible and easy to understand. And for those of us who might be filing our taxes er...late, the appendix is terrific!

You can't write a vast book based on half-vast ideas. But that didn't stop this author from trying to pass off a book filled with useless platitudes.

My guess is that it took her all of two days to write this trivial book. Seek some professional financial help at work or through one of the government agencies instead.

Also isn't it interesting that the only two reviews that praised this book are written by anonymous reviewers. Could those be from the author or her friends?

For those facing premature layoffs or are just beginning to consider their retirement planning, this book is the perfect source for basic information we all need to know.

Hoffman's book addresses fundamental issues and stimulates questions for those who have not thought ahead. It is a roadmap for initial planning and a resource index to other information sources.

I recommend this book to everyone who is being forced to consider retirement alternatives and the financial challenges earlier than they might have expected. It is easy to read and understand. Begin your homework now!

Here is another book trying to make a buck off of us "poor, helpless old folks who are closer to retirement than to college." Well I've got news for this author: Retirement may be near but: We've got money. We've got brains. But we have little patience for silly books like this one that promise to reveal the big secrets to retiring wealthy--and in this case by doing it on the back of honest taxpayers. If only this book delivered but it doesn't.

Most of the "secrets" in this book are old or too impractical and timeconsuming to pull off. Besides, if President Bush gets his way and revises Social Security the rest of this advice will also be worthless. Stick with the advice you already know because if retirement is near you cannot afford to be rolling the dice with your nest egg!