3 Awful Reasons to Take Social Security Benefits at 65
The age you land on for claiming Social Security could affect the monthly benefits you receive for life. Those benefits themselves are calculated by taking your average monthly earnings during your 35 highest-paid years in the workforce, adjusting them for inflation, and applying a special formula to that number. You're then entitled to collect your monthly benefit in full once you reach full retirement age.
But you actually get an eight-year window to sign up for benefits that starts at age 62 and ends at age 70. In fact, you technically don't have to sign up at 70, but delaying past that point won't put more money in your pocket, so there's no sense in waiting longer.
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