Learn how your retirement age impacts your monthly Social Security benefits and which option could cost you the most in retirement benefits over time.

See the maximum Social Security benefit at each age from 62 to 70 in 2026, how those numbers are calculated, and why many retirees may not reach them.

Social Security should only be one component of retirement income.

Now that your 2022 taxes have been filed, you can get an updated look at your estimated monthly Social Security payments online. This online tool uses the money you have paid into Social Security to ...

The Social Security Administration uses four straightforward variables to calculate your monthly Social Security benefit. Though every age within the traditional claiming range of 62 through 70 has ...

Maximize your own retirement with insights into the biggest Social Security benefit possible at 67 and the factors that ...

The standard advice is to hold off, but most retirees claim the benefit as soon as they can, at age 62. Here’s what to know when you’re planning the unplannable. Blair Barondes and his wife, Janet ...

A new Social Security Administration report shows how benefits vary by age and lifetime earnings, and why higher earners ...

Social Security's so-called "full retirement age" — the age when people can start collecting all of their earned benefits — is about to hit a new threshold, a change that will affect Americans born in ...

For Americans of a certain age, there may be no bigger question than this. At what age should I take Social Security? At age 62? Sixty-five? Seventy? The question matters, because your monthly Social ...