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Getting Personal: Social Security checks, choosing how to save

Marketplace Contributor Nov 18, 2011

Your questions for Tess Vigeland and the Los Angeles Times’s David Lazarus this week: One man who left Bank of America is looking for a safe place with low fees to put his stock portfolio, a laid-off worker wonders whether she should withdraw from Social Security now or later and a couple is trying to decide how to pay down credit card debt, contribute to their retirement and build up an emergency fund.

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