A Tough Look at Fidelity’s Social Security IQ Quiz

By Larry Kotlikoff

Originally posted at nextavenue, April 2017 

Fidelity Investments recently released a survey about when Americans say they plan to start claiming Social Security and how much they know about the basics of Social Security. As someone who specializes in writing about how the Social Security system works — or doesn’t work — I’d like to offer my take on the survey’s results. (These are my personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of Next Avenue.) MORE

John C. Goodman is President of the Goodman Institute and Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute. His books include the soon-to-be-published updated edition of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, the widely acclaimed A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, and New Way to Care: Social Protections that Put Families First. The Wall Street Journal and National Journal, among other media, have called him the “Father of Health Savings Accounts.”