Social Security – What You Need To Know
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Social Security Retirement Benefits
Social Security was originally intended to provide older Americans with continuing income after retirement. Today, though the scope of Social Security has been widened to include survivor’s, disability, and other benefits, retirement benefits are still the cornerstone of the program.
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Planning for Earned Income in Retirement
If you’re like a lot of people, retirement won’t be the world of gardening, golfing, traveling, and tennis you once envisioned. Rather, retirement will mean relaxing and working. Maybe you’ve retired from your “regular” job and started a business, or perhaps you want to work part- time just to stay busy. However, if you work after you start receiving Social Security retirement benefits, your earnings may affect the amount of your benefit check.
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How Earnings Affect Social Security
If you begin to receive Social Security retirement (or survivor’s) benefits before you reach full retirement age, money you earn over a certain limit will reduce the amount of your Social Security benefit.
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Timing Your Earnings in Retirement to Optimize Your Social Security Retirement Benefit
If you work after you begin receiving Social Security retirement benefits, you may lose all or part of your retirement benefit if your earnings exceed the retirement earnings exempt amount. However, you won’t lose benefits due to excess earnings once you reach normal retirement age, and it’s possible to time your earnings in retirement in order to optimize your benefit.
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Sources of Retirement Income: Filling the Social Security Gap
Sources of Retirement Income: Filling the Social Security Gap illustration.
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