Continuing to work, period: Even if you don’t start benefits early, you can increase your benefits by continuing to work up to any age. Any year in which your indexed earnings are higher than one of your 35 previous highest years will boost your benefits. However, after age 60, you wi...
How Early Social Security Payments Affect You and Your SpouseQ: My wife and I have been drawing Social Security for manyyears. But one thing puzzles me. Her...By DinnenSteve
To understand how an early claim affects your checks, it's helpful first to know what an early claim is. Filing for Social Security benefits early means that you file for benefits before yourfull retirement age(FRA). FRA depends on your birth year. Here's what yours is, depen...
How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends For married men, we find the conventional view of retirement trends 鈥 that the long term trend to early retirement has been reversed -- is partially contr... AL Gustman,TL Steinmeier - 《Social Science Electronic Publishing》 被引...
Who Can Get Retirement Benefits? Workers who have paid into the Social Security system for at least 10 years become eligible for early retirement benefits at age 62.5Waiting until yourfull retirement age (FRA)(between ages 66 and 67, depending on the year you were born) results in higher mon...
How to Create a My Social Security Account Workers age 18 and older are eligible to create amy Social Security accountand get a personalized estimate of future Social Security payments. Establishing a my Social Security account allows you to check the accuracy of your earnings andcorre...
Before you claim Social Security early, you may want to think about how the move would impact your spousal benefits. To begin with, not all early filers can access those benefits immediately — and for those who are able to, the decision may not mean getting a bigger monthly check. It's...
Anderson Cooper: If someone's been paid too much in Social Security benefits, why shouldn't they have to pay it back? Laurence Kotlikoff: Because you relied on it. So you may have decided to-- retire early, or to spend the money on your child's tuition. ...
How early retirement affects Social Security payments You can start taking benefits as early as age 62, but your payout will be lower than if you start at full retirement age or later. Your full retirement age depends on the year you were born. For those born in 1960 or later, the full...
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