Americans Are Rethinking This Popular Social Security Claiming Age. Should You?

You can't claim Social Security retirement benefits before you turn 62, but there's nothing to stop you from planning your claiming strategy in advance. You should actually do so in order to better estimate how large your checks will be and how much of your retirement expenses you'll need to cover on your own.Your ideal claiming age might not be the same as your friend's or neighbor's, and that's OK. There are a lot of factors to think about when weighing the best decision for you. That said, understanding trends can help clue you in to the potential benefits or drawbacks you might not have been aware of otherwise.Over the past two decades, there has been an unmistakable move away from Social Security's most popular claiming age -- and there's a pretty good reason why.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool