The Editorial Team

The Retiree Report is produced by a small editorial team that splits responsibility by beat. Every article is written, fact-checked, and edited by people — AI tools help with research and drafting, but the editorial decisions, source verification, and final word choices belong to the team.

How the team is organized

We work in four overlapping beats. A senior editor reviews every story before it goes live, regardless of which beat produced it.

Medicare and prescription drug coverage

This beat reads CMS Final Rules, the annual Medicare Plan Finder data file, and KFF policy analysis. The editor on this beat has spent the last decade following CMS rulemaking and has placed reporting in publications that cover health policy. Every Medicare figure published on this site is checked against the current CMS fact sheet and the Medicare.gov beneficiary page on the same business day the article is finalized.

Social Security and retirement income

This beat follows the SSA Office of the Chief Actuary, the Trustees Report, and SSA's Program Operations Manual System (POMS). Articles dealing with claiming math are reviewed by the beat lead before publication. Numbers are checked against ssa.gov on the day of finalization.

Taxes, retirement accounts, and estate planning

This beat reads the Internal Revenue Code, IRS Revenue Procedures, and Treasury guidance. The editor on this beat consults Kiplinger, the Tax Foundation, and the IRS Newsroom before publishing any number affecting RMDs, Roth conversions, or IRMAA thresholds. Tax articles are never advice for an individual reader's situation.

Health, scams, and consumer protection

This beat works from primary sources — CDC, FDA, NIH, USPSTF — for vaccines and clinical guidelines, and FTC, FBI IC3, and AARP Fraud Watch Network for scams. Health articles cite the most recent clinical guideline by name and year, not "doctors say". Scam articles cite at least one government enforcement action or advisory.

Editorial review process

Before any article publishes, it passes the following checks:

• At least three independent authoritative sources cited inline.
• Every dollar amount, percentage, deadline, and named statute confirmed against an official source on the day of publication.
• Every cited URL fetched and verified to load and contain the claim.
• Year-specific figures labeled with the year explicitly. If the current-year figure has not been released, the article uses the most recent published year and says so.
• YMYL disclosure language present where the topic is medical, financial, tax, or legal.
• No invented statistics, no invented studies, no invented experts.

Conflict of interest

The editorial team holds no positions in companies whose products are reviewed. The site earns revenue through display advertising and qualifying Amazon affiliate purchases. Affiliate links never determine what we cover. No company has ever paid for coverage on this site, and we don't accept sponsored content.

Corrections

If you see an error, write to trisstann@gmail.com with the article URL and the specific claim. We respond within 48 hours and post corrections at the top of the affected article, with the original wording in a strikethrough where useful for context.

Reach the team

For story tips, corrections, partnership inquiries, or press requests, see the contact page.