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Thoughts on Growing Your Social Security Benefit
If you’re looking ahead to drawing your earned Social Security benefits, you certainly should create a mySocialSecurity account with the Social Security Administration (SSA). If you don’t already have a “my Social Security account,” it’s an easy and quick process to create one, and you can do that via this site: https://www.ssa.gov/myaccount. And when you have your account set up, you’ll be able to see what SSA has projected your eventual base benefit to be. That would be a great starting point for planning your retirement financial picture, but you should know that there are steps you can take to increase your projected monthly benefit higher. In a post on www.wmleader.com, Robert Powell, CFP, editor of TheStreet’s Retirement Daily and regular USA TODAY contributor, provides some pointers you might ocnsider. Check his post out here…
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