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SOCIAL SECURITY-RELATED ARTICLES BELOW
Essential Understanding of Social
Security Benefits for Retirees
If you’re considering when you
should retire, you’ll need to know
just when your Social Security
benefits (i.e. monthly income) kicks
in for you – and how much you’ll
get. This article summarizes when
and who gets Social Security
benefits, how much, and what affects
how much you get ...read
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Social Security Income – When Should You
Start Receiving Yours
The Social Security permanently increases
your benefits the longer you delay starting
them. But that poses the problem of when is
it best for you to begin. And that’s what
this article addresses...read
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How Does Social Security Arrive at
your Monthly Benefit?
Your Social Security benefit
(monthly income) - whenever you
choose to begin receiving Social
security - is based on what your
benefit would be if you started to
receive it at your Full Retirement
Age (FRA). I’ll call that your FRA
SS benefit. Your FRA used to be 65
years old for everyone...
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If You’re Married, How Much
Social Security Will You Get?
How much
social security income can you
expect as a married couple?
Actually, in that case, you
get the better of two options.
Each person – married or not -
is entitled to his or her social
security benefit according to
his or her own earnings. In the
case of marriage, you’ll receive
the higher of what you are
entitled to on your own earnings
or what you are entitled to
simply for being the spouse of
your marriage partner – i.e.
‘the spousal entitlement’...read
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