The Treasury Department is facing a March 1 deadline to get millions of people who still receive their benefit payments by mail to convert to electronic delivery.

What if you're nearing retirement age and can't stand the thought of leaving the workforce? What are your choices?

My husband: Not afraid of scary bugs in the bathroom or mice in the attic; can lift heavy suitcases with one arm; able to run fast enough to catch our dog; the first to get up in the dark when we hear a strange noise downstairs.

With all the financial advice gurus on TV and the Internet these days, how do you know whom to believe? Now comes a book urging caution about everyone from best-selling personal finance authors to financial advisers to the sponsors behind financial literacy initiatives.

It's that time again. Time to make resolutions that in years past you've probably broken before Valentine's Day. In its annual New Year's resolution survey,

Benjamin Franklin once declared, "Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." Although I don't have any updates on the former, where taxes are concerned I do have news.

Lately, my world is dominated by numbers—these numbers: 0.4, 16.7 and 133/76. It began in November when my blood pressure, previously under control, started to rise again.