10,000 Americans are retiring each day; and facing one of the most important financial decisions of their lives: “When should I start taking Social Security?”
This seemingly simple decision is complicated by changing laws and the program's 2,728 core rules and thousands of codicils that result in billions of dollars in benefits being lost every year.
For most Americans, Social Security is their largest financial asset, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and indexed against increases in the cost of living. The editor of this book has sifted through many thousands of pages of SSA publications to find the answers to the most frequently asked questions about Social Security retirement benefits – and how to maximize them – and presents them here in a useful and coherent manner.
