benefits

Lines at your local Social Security office are about to get a lot longer — if it survives a wave of closures brought on by funding cuts under the Trump administration.And the Social Security field offices that do stay open are in for a flood of visitors after the short-staffed…

Michael Townsend and his wife had their daughter Georgie when he was 44 and she was 40.He says there are both benefits and challenges to being an older dad.He has less energy than he used to, but the couple is more financially secure than they once were.This as-told-to essay is…