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A Special Guide for Seniors and Families

Fiscal Fitness for Older Americans: Stretching Your Savings and Shaping Up Your Financial Strategies

A Message to Readers

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has been publishing FDIC Consumer News quarterly since 1993 to help people protect and stretch their money. This edition is a guide for seniors and their families. Americans are living longer and spending more years in retirement than ever before. They need practical suggestions and reliable information about how to maintain financial stability and independence during the retirement years. We hope that elderly consumers — and the people who care for and about them — will find this special issue to be truly special and beneficial.

FDIC Consumer News is published by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

FDIC Consumer News is produced quarterly by the FDIC Office of Public Affairs in cooperation with other Divisions and Offices. It is intended to present information in a nontechnical way and is not intended to be a legal interpretation of FDIC or other government regulations and policies. Mention of a product, service or company does not constitute an endorsement.

Find current and past issues of FDIC Consumer News at http://www.fdic.gov/consumernews. Refer to this same index to locate the issues that are specially formatted for being reprinted in any quantity.

To receive an e-mail notice about each new issue of FDIC Consumer News posted on the FDIC Web site, with links to stories, follow instructions posted at www.fdic.gov/about/subscriptions/index.html.

Last updated on 11/14/2005

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