Ultimately, the best way to ensure your retirement plan stays intact is to habitually live below your means. That will allow you to consistently accumulate savings. The steps you can take ahead of time are making sure you don't have a lot of debt and simply saving money.
Continued from Pg. 16 We usually worked 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. But then Hurricane Katrina came along, and it was 12hour shifts, 7 days a week. about it and said they were interested in hiring people for the call center. It was going to help with the debts, so I said Ok, I can do that! I was involved from 2003 to 2017. Q: What did you do at the call center? A: First I went through thorough training, some of it online. I still have a stack of training information. Then when people would call in, I would take their information and see what they were eligible for. I would give them information about what they needed to do, and ask them if they had any questions, but I didn t figure out how much money they would get. I didn t want to do...