AARP Financial Security Resources and Tools

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AARP is working to ensure you have the resources and tools you need to take charge of your future by offering free and unbiased information as you work, plan, and save for the real possibility of long-term financial security.

Following are free tools and resources to help you get started, based on the following Categories: Credit Card Debt; Social Security; Retirement Planning; Work and Encore Entrepreneurship Resources; and Work and Jobs.

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AARP offers a variety of free and easy to use online calculators to help you plan, save, reduce credit card debt, and more. Click here to see all the calculators.

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Credit card debt is a drain on your resources, financial and emotional. Use our free online credit card pay-off calculator, complete with definitions of commonly used financial terms.

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: Helps you decide when to claim Social Security to get the highest benefit.

AARP Social Security Q&A Tool: Provides answers to your most frequently-asked questions about Social Security retirement benefits.

AARP Social Security Tips Sheets: Provide guidance on Social Security issues (also includes tip sheets for living on a budget, finding a job or starting a business, and many more topics).

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AARP Money and Retirement Expert: Eileen Ambrose

AARP Retirement Calculator: Helps you figure out how and at what point to retire when you want, based on how much you've been saving.

AARP Health Care Costs Calculator: Helps you estimate how much you will pay for out-of-pocket health care expenses in retirement so you can plan accordingly.

AARP Retirement Tip Sheets: Guidance on planning and saving, investing, managing and protecting assets, and housing and mortgage issues (also includes tip sheets for living on a budget, finding a job or starting a business, and many more topics).

AARP Financial Freedom Initiatives: Offers information to multicultural audiences about managing credit, eliminating debt, cutting costs, creating a budget, and learning basic investing principles.

AARP Jobs Experts: Kerry Hannon and Kimberly Palmer

Work Resources: Provides information and tools on how to find a job or start a small business.

Job Seeker Tip Sheets: Free resources to help job seekers with resume-writing, cover letters, handling interviews, job search strategies, career planning, starting a business, and more  (also includes tip sheets for living on a budget, retirement planning, and more topics).

Guide to Self-Employment: Provides resources on how to start or grow a small business.

AARP Job Search Tools: A variety of tips, resources, and links to online job search sites.