Martha Shedden is President and Co-founder of the National Association of Registered Social Security Analysts, NARSSA, and is also certified through the College of Financial Planning as a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC).
Martha was introduced to the topic of Social Security in 2011. She quickly became passionate about educating others on the topic and began teaching CPE/CE Social Security courses to finance and tax professionals in 2014 through several online providers.
She also recognized the untapped demand for soon-to-be retirees to obtain accurate, personalized Social Security information and answers to their questions on the specific rules and claiming strategies that affected their claiming decisions.
To meet this need, in 2015, Martha launched her business, Shedden Social Security & Retirement Planning, where she provides both Social Security claiming analyses and retirement cash flow analyses.
Martha is passionate about educating financial professionals and retirees alike on the details of Social Security income planning, the foundation and first step to creating a financially secure retirement plan.
She has more than a decade of experience providing Social Security education, consulting, and analyses and is the author of numerous Social Security white papers, seminar presentations and articles in financial publications. She is frequently interviewed by news organizations about Social Security topics.