Have our family birth certificates, shot records, medical records, etc., in our files. Review our income status from money market funds, other retirement funds with our investment counselor, particularly if we will be needing withdrawals in the first 3-6 months of 2000. Determine the best types of investments that will weather the Y2K storm. Know where we stand financially with Social Security, Medicare, etc., do not put this off until the last minute. Have paper documentation of these accounts.
Time is short.
It will only grow shorter, and as the end of the century approaches, it will get more and more difficult to get information out of systems that are already, even as you read this, beginning to fail. Many companies have now added information on Y2K to their web site's . If you check, you may find considerable information there relating to how far along an individual company thinks they are in the process. All I can suggest is that if we do nothing, the brick wall is the more likely scenario. Some experts are hoping for minor inconveniences, but others preach doomsday.