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Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, free shipping for prime members and I always get more cash back from SC in December than the $100 membership cost. EBay and RockAuto for car parts.
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Gail.1 I am not missing anything. I have done the math and if you wait until FRA you do not see any increase in total benefit until after age 82. Since I do not know how long I am going to live I took SS early to get out of debt. Since I have other r...
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I also have a Military Pension, so for me $250 per month is not enough for me to give up almost 70 K $ from age 62 to FRA.
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Gail.1 - I was talking about your comment of delaying your benefits for 1 year because the FRA is going to 67. not that it was the reduction if you take your benefits at 62.You cannot just look at the reduction and say I am going to wait for the bigg...
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Gail.1 Delaying one year will cost me $15,456 and it would take 12.5 years until the increase of $103 gets back the $15,456. IMO it is not worth waiting one year for just $103
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Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, free shipping for prime members and I always get more cash back from SC in December than the $100 membership cost. EBay and RockAuto for car parts.
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Gail.1 I am not missing anything. I have done the math and if you wait until FRA you do not see any increase in total benefit until after age 82. Since I do not know how long I am going to live I took SS early to get out of debt. Since I have other r...
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I also have a Military Pension, so for me $250 per month is not enough for me to give up almost 70 K $ from age 62 to FRA.
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Gail.1 - I was talking about your comment of delaying your benefits for 1 year because the FRA is going to 67. not that it was the reduction if you take your benefits at 62.You cannot just look at the reduction and say I am going to wait for the bigg...
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Gail.1 Delaying one year will cost me $15,456 and it would take 12.5 years until the increase of $103 gets back the $15,456. IMO it is not worth waiting one year for just $103
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Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, free shipping for prime members and I always get more cash back from SC in December than the $100 membership cost. EBay and RockAuto for car parts.
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Gail.1 I am not missing anything. I have done the math and if you wait until FRA you do not see any increase in total benefit until after age 82. Since I do not know how long I am going to live I took SS early to get out of debt. Since I have other r...
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I also have a Military Pension, so for me $250 per month is not enough for me to give up almost 70 K $ from age 62 to FRA.
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Gail.1 - I was talking about your comment of delaying your benefits for 1 year because the FRA is going to 67. not that it was the reduction if you take your benefits at 62.You cannot just look at the reduction and say I am going to wait for the bigg...
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Gail.1 Delaying one year will cost me $15,456 and it would take 12.5 years until the increase of $103 gets back the $15,456. IMO it is not worth waiting one year for just $103
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