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Social Security Articles address how Social Security works, determines your benefits, produces incentives to hold off beginning your Social Security benefits. These articles show your benefits, and spouse benefits. How much work affects your benefits  and much more. Check them out.

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Early Social Security Benefits with Working a lot Doesn’t Make Sense

If you think you’ll take your Social Security benefits early but still continue working a lot, you may want to consider if it makes good financial sense to do so. The Social Security Administration creates disincentives for taking Social Security before your full retirement age. Here’s how they work it...read more

Husband’s Early Retirement Will Lower Wife’s SS Entitlement Benefits
Usually, about 50% of people eligible to collect Social Security at 62 begin to collect it then. But collecting your Social Security benefits (i.e. income) before your full retirement age (FRA) will permanently reduce your benefits. That reduction is about 25% if you begin at age 62. This article explains how beginning your Social Security benefits early will limit your spouse’s Social Security marriage entitlement benefits...read more

How Much Social Security Can You Get If You’re Married?
Part of your retirement income will come from Social Security. But how much social security income can you expect as a married couple? As a spouse, you get the better of two Social Security incomes...read more 

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 more

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 more

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... read more

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 more

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