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Tennessee Retirement Planning

Secure Family Benefits

Retirement is personal. You’ve worked hard to save and invest your money and now it’s time to optimize and protect your savings to provide for your retirement and your loved ones thereafter.

Secure Family Benefits is an independent firm, specializing in helping individuals and families transition into retirement with safety. Our approach focuses on tailored retirement planning strategies, insurance solutions and Medicare planning to provide our clients with guaranteed lifetime income, asset protection and peace of mind with their healthcare.

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Our Planning Process

Our three-step planning process works to help identify and implement suitable financial strategies for helping our clients meet their needs and achieve their goals and objectives for retirement.

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Start Smart

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Apply Discipline

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Communicate Progress

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Start Smart

Get a Clear Understanding of Your Financial Life

First, we gain a thorough understanding of your current financial situation, goals, objectives, risk tolerance, and the key considerations that should be addressed in your retirement strategy.

Six Fundamental Financial Planning Considerations

Six key financial planning considerations can impact your financial goals now and in the future. The question is not if these will affect your finances, but to what degree. We evaluate your sentiment toward each consideration and quantify the potential effects on your assets over time. This allows us to build customized strategies to help you achieve your financial objectives for retirement.

Longevity

Outliving financial assets as the result of a longer life.

Inflation

Reduction in real purchasing power as the result of increasing cost of living.

Mortality

Loss of financial assets as the result of a partner’s or spouse’s death.

Liquidity

Limited access to assets to meet life’s unexpected financial needs.

Market

Unexpected reduction in the value of financial assets at the time of withdrawal.

Taxes

Decreasing income and assets and/or the impairment of legacy assets from increasing taxes.

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Apply Discipline

A Retirement Strategy Designed for You

Next, we design a retirement strategy that actively works to help optimize your wealth and protect your finances, keeping your goals and objectives at the forefront of our planning process.

Our Services, Your Future

We take the time to thoroughly explore your needs no matter the stage of life you are in to help provide a custom tailored solution that we continue to monitor and adjust until the end of time.

Understand the benefits you are entitled to and how to maximize Social Security income in retirement.

Ease the financial and emotional toll of long-term care with early planning so you can retire with peace of mind and dignity.

Life insurance is essential for ensuring financial security for your dependents, covering daily living expenses, debts, and income replacement in the event of you untimely death. It supports business continuity, aids in estate planning by covering taxes, and provides peace of mind. Working with a reputable agent ensures you get the right coverage to meet your needs.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, was enacted in March 2010 to make health insurance affordable, expand Medicaid, and support innovative medical care delivery. Key features include health insurance marketplaces, tiered coverage levels, essential health benefits, and protections for pre-existing conditions. Despite changes to the individual mandate, open enrollment periods remain essential for accessing ACA-compliant plans.

Develop solutions for healthcare expenses not covered by Medicare, a federal health insurance program.

Design an income plan that delivers dependable income and financial security throughout your retirement.

Protect your estate and loved ones from unnecessary taxation and probate with proactive estate planning strategies.

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Communicate Progress

Our Commitment to You

Lastly and continually, we work to ensure transparency of your income plan by providing visibility, proactive
outreach, and accessibility to our team throughout our working relationship.

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Lastly and continually, we work to ensure transparency of your income plan by providing visibility, proactive outreach, and accessibility to our team throughout our working relationship.

Our Upcoming Events

Events in February–April 2026

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Legacy and Estate Planning; Understanding the Basics

Estate planning is an important part of retirement planning. You’ve worked hard for your money and want to see your children and grandchildren benefit, and you probably want to see it passed down in the most efficient way possible. Unfortunately, costly mistakes are all too easy to make, from forgetting to name a beneficiary on your retirement account to not updating your estate plan over time. It’s not just billionaires who need to have solid estate plans; it’s anyone who wants their wishes to be honored after their passing.

Discover strategies for maximizing your Social Security benefit.

For a complimentary copy of Maximizing Social Security: What You Need to Know to Get the Most Out of Your Benefit, complete the form below.

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