Deciding when to claim Social Security can be challenging. You can start taking benefits at 62, but you won't get full benefits unless you wait until your full retirement age. That being said, there ...

The Social Security Administration relies on four broad-based variables to calculate your monthly check. Ages 62, 67, and 70 are likely to be some of the most popular Social Security claiming ages ...

Your claiming age can wildly swing the monthly payout pendulum. For a majority of the more than 53 million retired-worker beneficiaries who received Social Security income in October, their payout is ...

Age 62 is the soonest you can sign up for Social Security. Claiming benefits early will reduce them on a monthly basis for life. That doesn't automatically make claiming Social Security at 62 a poor ...

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 ...