β Week #4 Action Item: Plan for Upcoming Life Events
π Life events can impact different areas of our financial life.
π Every life event will impact our goals and how we can achieve them. Following the Get Ready Method helps you know what to update and what to consider.
π Review major life events and what to focus on at these life events. Here are five major events:
- Financial independence and retirement: Design financial independence paycheck. Obtain individual health insurance or Medicare. Terminate disability insurance. Modify or terminate life insurance. Plan for longevity.
- Marriage and domestic partnership: Family meeting. Decide on separate or shared finances, tax filing status, insurance (set separate and joint goals). Estate planning update. Document update if name change. Update beneficiaries. Property titles. Update investment strategy.
- Parenthood (birth, adoption, foster): Life insurance. College savings account. Estate planning update. Update beneficiaries. Update health insurance. Plan for child-related costs. Research parental leave. Apply for a social security number (so you can claim your new dependent).
- Starting a job: Negotiate salaryβget paid what youβre worth (research gender pay gap). Maximize employee benefit usage. Participate in 401(k) and make sure to get match. Review health insurance.
- Widowhood: Get certified copies of death certificate. Settle the estate. Execute will and trust. File insurance claims. Notify Social Security. Claim benefits through deceasedβs employee benefits. Notify financial providers, credit bureaus, utilities, and so on. Update estate plan and beneficiary designations. Remove deceased from accounts. Property titles. Update investment strategy.
π Get Ready Insiders can access focus areas for additional life events including: business ownership, caregiving, disability, disaster recovery, divorce, home purchase, inheritance & windfalls, leaving a job, military, moving, pet ownership, special-needs child and starting out (turning 18) & college years.
βοΈ Pro-tip:
π Stay prepared by updating your financial life as you encounter life events.
π Habit of the week: The Get Ready Habit that you can focus on this week.
π Review how any current life events impact your financial life.
π‘ Get Ready Money Guide Tip: Discussion prompts and ideas for those following The Get Ready Guide Kit (access from your dashboard)
π Do you have any life events coming up that will require updates?
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About Tony Steuer
I make the complex world of financial services easy to understand so that people feel empowered to take control of their financial lives. A recognized authority on financial preparedness - in case of that disaster you did not expect - I advocate for ethics, integrity and consumer protection within the financial industry.
I make the complex world of financial services easy to understand so that people feel empowered to take control of their financial lives. A recognized authority on financial preparedness - in case of that disaster you did not expect - I advocate for ethics, integrity and consumer protection within the financial industry.
