📋 When Should You Take Social Security? (AARP Article - updated)

[Winter2025VA]

FROM THE ARTICLE: When should I start collecting Social Security?

Your overall health and job security play a part in the decision.

By Andy Markowitz and Tracy Thompson, AARP.

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Published October 10, 2018.

➡️ Updated March 21, 2025. ⬅️

The answer to that question is complicated and highly individual. ​You can claim Social Security as early as age 62, but many personal finance experts tell their clients to put off filing for benefits as long as possible. This strategy will maximize your monthly payments, but that's not necessarily the end of the discussion.

USE LINK BELOW TO READ THE ARTICLE: https://www.aarp.org/social-security/faq/when-should-you-start-collecting/

[Winter2025VA]

I had PLANNED on working as long as I could and/or folks would hire me. Yes, AGE DISCRIMATION is still with us oldsters.

Anyway, COVID arrived in 2020, the year I turned 62.

My then employer was NOT concerned about Employee Safety, so I figured it was time to retire. WAY TOO MANY old people were "dying" from COVID in my location.  😱

Take care,

Nicole  👵