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Your Social Security chart can help you decide when to start your benefits
You can begin your Social Security retirement benefits as early as age 62. However, if you start receiving benefits early, your benefits are reduced. You are entitled to full benefits when you reach your full retirement age. If you delay…
COVID-19 and Your Decision to Claim Social Security Benefits
Those who have been weighing their options for Social Security benefits know that filing early (i.e. before their full retirement age – FRA) will result in a reduction from their FRA benefit. Likewise, they know that deferring their filing beyond…
Ask Rusty – Maximizing Spousal Benefits
Dear Rusty: My husband turns 68 next year, and I will be turning 66. He plans on continuing to work and retiring at age 70 to maximize his monthly Social Security benefits. I am retiring next year due to a…
Reverse Mortgages as a Social Security Deferral Strategy: Be Careful!
It sounds like a piece of cake…take your home equity and use it to delay filing for Social Security so that you can capitalize on the Delayed Retirement Credits. But, as in most things that sound simple and easy on…