<prompt> Human: My mother recently had the benefit of coming into a decent sum of money; about 25,000. She has a very weak retirement portfolio, and seems to be betting almost completely on social security for her retirement. Shes in her early fifties - is there any safe-to-moderately-aggressive investments she should look into that might be able to help her retirement position, considering she has about 15 years left before shell need to retire?  <response>: Howdy. SSA employee here.Take mom to a computer and sit her down and have her log into my social security and look over what she will actually be receiving when she retires.This should be the start of the conversation as to what to do with the money. Assumptions usually only make things worse.Shes got 15 years to be a little more aggressive if needed for growth, or more conservative if shes happy with her SSA amount.This is the only way to know what to do with the money. 