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Social Security Disability Benefits - don’t try to finagle the rules
In this Investment News column, Mary Beth Franklin discusses how trying to mess with Social Security’s rules for claiming disability benefits and maximizing retirement benefits can have some disastrous unintended consequences. The rules are very clear that disability benefits automatically convert to retirement benefits at full retirement age, and trying to suspend retirement benefits to gain a bigger check can end with some financially painful results. Click here to read more.
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