BuySide - The Wall Street Journal | Do You Get Social Security Payments in a Government Shutdown?

Published: November 14, 2023

“A potential government shutdown is looming once again, and unless Congress can agree on a funding bill by Friday’s end, a range of government functions will cease. Federal employees would be furloughed. Small Business Administration loans would stop. Students wouldn’t even be able to get federal grants for college. Social Security benefits, on the other hand, would continue to be paid out. “The Social Security Administration is considered an essential service, so there won’t be a delay in checks for Social Security,” says Martha Shedden, president and co-founder of the National Association of Registered Social Security Analysts, a nationwide, for-profit educational organization for Social Security advisors.”

Press Release | RSSA Unveils Advanced Fintech Platform Capable of Precise Social Security Retirement Planning with Live Support

Published: November 7, 2023

The National Association of Registered Social Security Analysts® announced today its new fintech platform, RSSA Roadmap™, which is a proprietary fintech platform designed to provide consumers and retirement professionals with precise Social Security retirement planning as well as access to a first-of-its-kind nationwide “call center” staffed by trained experts in Social Security.RSSA Roadmap is the first and only cloud based, advisory supported Social Security optimization planning solution that makes it easy for individuals to visualize all their available claiming options by using the proprietary RSSA Heatmap™ and to get expert help when they have questions.

ThinkAdvisor | 7 Benefit Adjustments That Could Help Save Social Security

Published: November 3, 2023

“Americans who fear for the future of the Social Security program have a number of good reasons to do so, starting with the simple fact that the primary trust fund used to pay retirement benefits is set to become depleted as soon as 2033. However, as stressed by Social Security experts including Marcia Mantell and Martha Shedden, there are also reasons for a measure of tranquility, including the realization that the Social Security program isn’t actually going “bankrupt,” as media reports and pundits commonly suggest.”

ThinkAdvisor | New Platform Promises ‘Near-Perfect’ Social Security Planning

Published: October 16, 2023

The National Association of Registered Social Security Analysts has launched a new fintech platform called the RSSA Roadmap, designed to provide consumers and retirement advisors with live support and other tech-based resources to allow “near-perfect Social Security retirement planning.” Speaking about the launch with ThinkAdvisor, the organization’s president, Martha Shedden, said the new tool — a cloud-based, advisory-supported Social Security optimization planning solution — makes it easy for individuals to visualize their available claiming options and to get expert help when they have questions.

FA Magazine | New Tool Offers Help Maximizing Social Security Benefits

Published: October 16, 2023

The National Association of Registered Social Security Analysts has created a platform to assist financial advisors and people who are contemplating collecting their Social Security to maximize benefits, the association announced today. The new tool, the RSSA (Registered Social Security Analysts) Roadmap, was developed to make what can be a complicated decision easier. The Roadmap can help beneficiaries maximize their benefits, the association said.

CBS News | Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment set at 3.2% — less than half of the current year’s increase

Published: October 13, 2023

The COLA adjustment “is welcome, but I think it’s disappointing because most retirees are still seeing the kind of prices that haven’t gone down,” said Martha Shedden of the National Association of Registered Social Security Analysts. The COLA “doesn’t seem like that accurately reflects what we’re seeing in real life.”