Benefits worth a second look: health plan, HSA or FSA, life and disability, and who is covered.
September 29, 2026

Open Enrollment Before You Retire: What to Review This Fall

Open enrollment tends to get five minutes and a click. Open enrollment before you retire deserves more than that. The reason is simple. Some of what you choose follows you out the door, and some of it stops the day you leave. Knowing which is which is easier to sort out in the fall than in the week you retire....
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The Medicare window each fall: late September, October 15 to December 7, and January 1.
September 29, 2026

Medicare Open Enrollment: What to Review in Your Plan

Most of a financial plan can be changed any week of the year. Health coverage is one of the few parts with a deadline attached. Medicare open enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. Changes made in that window start on January 1. Outside it, the choices are mostly set until the next fall. Still working: if you are...
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How to check for a retirement income gap: compare income that generally lasts for life with essential costs.
September 21, 2026

Retirement Income Gap: Does Your Lifetime Income Cover Your Essentials?

A lot of retirement worry comes down to one question. Is it enough? It is a hard question to answer in one piece. It gets easier once you break it into two smaller ones: how much has to come from savings each month, and how much of that covers spending you could not adjust. The first of those two is...
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Three common kinds of retirement income: lifetime income, portfolio income, and other income such as part-time work.
September 21, 2026

Retirement Income Sources: How Social Security, Pensions, and Savings Differ

For most of your working life, the money came from one place. In retirement it usually comes from several, each starting on its own schedule and taxed its own way. Those sources are not always written down in one place. That list is worth making, because how much of your income is fixed and how much depends on markets shapes...
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When to check your beneficiary forms: marriage or divorce, a birth or a loss, a job change, or a move to a new state.
September 15, 2026

How to Review Your Beneficiary Designations

Reviewing beneficiary designations rarely makes it onto a list. It is also among the few parts of an estate plan you can confirm yourself, this week, without an appointment. Still working: the account most likely to be out of date is the one you set up on your first day at a job you may no longer have. Already retired:...
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What your will does not control: retirement accounts, life insurance, annuities, and payable-on-death accounts pass by beneficiary form.
September 15, 2026

Beneficiary Designations: Who Inherits Your Retirement Accounts

Most people picture a will as the document that settles everything. For a large share of what you own, it does not. Beneficiary designations are the forms you filled in when you opened a retirement account or bought a life insurance policy. They name who inherits that account, and for those accounts the form generally controls. Still working: your employer...
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The retirement catch-up contribution window, showing standard, age 50, and age 60 through 63 limits.
September 8, 2026

Pre-Retirement Planning: What Changes in the Last Five Years

Most retirement advice is written for people who are either decades away or already finished. Pre-retirement planning gets less attention than either. The last five working years are where pre-retirement planning happens. They are also the years when a number of changes land close together. What changes before you retire is not the goal. It is the number of rules...
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The five years before retirement showing ages 59 and a half, 60 through 63, 62, and 65.
September 8, 2026

Five Years Before Retirement: What to Handle and When

The five years before retirement feel like plenty of time, and for most of that stretch, they are. But the five years before retirement contains several rules that take effect on their own schedule. A plan built around a single date can miss them entirely. Still working: this is the stretch where the widest range of decisions is still open...
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September 8, 2026

Privacy Notice

Rev. 08/2026 FACTS Why? Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do. What? The types of personal information we...
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September 8, 2026

Form CRS

June 25, 2026 Item 1. Introduction. Langan Financial Group is registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser. Brokerage and investment advisory services and fees differ and it is important for you to understand the differences. Free and simple tools are available to research firms and financial professionals at Investor.gov/CRS, which also provides educational materials...
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September 8, 2026

Important Disclosures

Langan Financial Group, LLC (“Langan Financial Group” or “LFG”) is an SEC registered investment adviser. SEC registration does not constitute an endorsement of the firm by the Commission nor does it indicate that the adviser has attained a particular level of skill or ability. LFG may only transact business in those states in which it is registered, or qualifies for...
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September 1, 2026

How Past Reforms Treated People Near Retirement

Learn how social security reform history shaped current benefits and what the 1983 changes tell us about future adjustments to your retirement plan....
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September 1, 2026

What Social Security Trust Fund Depletion Means

Every few years the same headline returns. Social Security is running out. The phrase is frightening, and it is also imprecise. Social Security trust fund depletion describes something narrower than the headline suggests. The difference matters a great deal for anyone building a plan around it. Still working: your claiming date probably sits on the far side of these projections....
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How the home sale exclusion works: the tax applies to your gain, not the sale price.
August 24, 2026

Do People Over 55 Get a Tax Break When They Sell a Home?

Learn how the over 55 home sale tax break changed and how the current exclusion rules work for sellers. Maximize your gains with these strategic insights....
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Downsizing before retirement is one decision with three questions: whether to move, when to move, and where to go.
August 24, 2026

Should You Downsize Before Retirement? How to Decide If, When, and Where

Consider downsizing before retirement to optimize your finances. Learn how to evaluate the if, when, and where of moving to secure your long-term plan....
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The fragile decade: the five years before and the five years after retirement, when a plan is most vulnerable.
August 13, 2026

The Fragile Decade: Why the Years Around Retirement Carry Extra Risk

Understand fragile decade retirement risk and how it impacts your savings. Learn to manage sequence of returns risk to protect your financial future today....
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Two retirees with the same average return but different order of returns end up in different places.
August 13, 2026

How to Help Make Your Retirement Savings Last

Understand how sequence of returns risk impacts your portfolio. Learn how timing affects your withdrawals and how to protect your retirement savings....
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Diagram showing how a Social Security and Medicare claiming choice connects to taxes on your benefit, Medicare premiums, and a spouse's survivor income.
July 31, 2026

How Social Security and Medicare Connect to Your Taxes and Spouse

Most people think of their Social Security choice as a decision on its own. You pick an age, you file, the checks arrive. But when you claim quietly reaches into three other parts of your money. Your Social Security and Medicare decisions, in particular, are more connected than most people expect. It affects your tax bill, your Medicare cost, and...
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Bar chart comparing Social Security benefits at ages 62, 67, and 70, showing the benefit grows the longer you wait to claim.
July 31, 2026

When to Claim Social Security: Why Break-Even Math Is Only Part of the Picture

Social Security break-even math is only one factor in your claiming decision. Learn how taxes, Medicare, and survivor benefits impact your retirement income....
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Line chart of retirement income by year, with the low-income gap years before age 73 highlighted.
July 31, 2026

The Quiet Planning Window Between Retirement and Age 73

Picture a few years where your income drops lower than it has been in decades, and where that low income is quietly an opportunity worth thousands of dollars. For many people, those years arrive and leave without anyone noticing. That is the story of the gap years. They are the stretch between when you stop working, often in your early...
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