📋 Make Social Security Last Longer With a Bridge Strategy (AARP Article)

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FROM THE ARTICLE.

How Your Savings Can Get You a Bigger Social Security Payout.
A ‘bridge strategy’ to delay your benefit claim could make your money last longer, but few retirees try it.

By Jon Marcus, AARP. Published October 21, 2025.

David Johnston’s clients worry. They worry about drawing down their hard-won retirement savings and having to pay taxes on that money when they do. They worry about keeping cash on hand for a rainy day. They worry about having something left to leave to their loved ones.

“I totally get it,” says Johnston, a certified financial planner and partner at New Jersey-based OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners. “They’ve spent all their lives saving. They like seeing the statements. It gives them a sense of comfort."

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https://www.aarp.org/social-security/bridge-strategy/