If you end up getting divorced during your lifetime, you are eligible to receive
Social Security retirement benefits based on your ex-spouse's earnings history, said David Freitag, a financial planning consultant with MassMutual.
If you end up getting divorced during your lifetime, you are eligible to receive
Social Security retirement benefits based on your ex-spouse's earnings history, said David Freitag, a financial planning consultant with MassMutual.
As a spouse, you have the option of claiming
a Social Security retirement benefit based on your own earnings record or collecting a spousal benefit equal to half of your spouse's Social Security benefit.
Not exact matches
To reduce
Social Security's projected funding shortfall, the commission would increase the taxable wage
base by 2050 to include 90 percent of earnings, to increase the full - and early -
retirement ages to 69 and 64 respectively by 2075, to cover newly hired state and local workers after 2020, and to create a hardship exemption allowing those who can not work past age 62 to receive
benefits early.
CAP also determines
Social Security benefits based on projected wages across the worker's career and includes the difference in
Social Security earnings in the
retirement calculation for 15 years after
retirement.
Also in regard to
Social Security retirement benefits, it's important to understand that monthly
benefits differ substantially
based on when you start receiving them and the filing option you choose.
According to a 2011 Pew Research Center poll, more than 40 percent of people aged 18 to 30 believe they will receive no
retirement income from
Social Security, even though
Social Security receipts are estimated to equal about 75 percent of
benefits on a sustainable
basis under the current regime.5
As a general rule, survivors
benefits based on age will be about the same total
Social Security benefits over a lifetime, whether they start early or at full survivors
retirement age.
Anyone who pays into
Social Security for at least 40 calendar quarters (10 years) is eligible for
retirement benefits based on their earnings record.
If you collect a reduced
benefit before your normal
retirement age,
Social Security will automatically give you the largest
benefit available to you, whether it's
based on your own work record, your spouse's record or a combination of the two.
However, an expectation does not by itself create an adequate financial
base for
retirement, especially when the expectation is
based — as it is in the U.S. — on substantial
Social Security benefits.
Not only are teachers being paid
benefits by the state well before
Social Security's
retirement age, but these provisions, along with the state's early
retirement with reduced
benefits based on years of service, may also encourage effective teachers to retire early.
Hawaii's pension system is
based on a
benefit formula that is not neutral, meaning that each year of work does not accrue pension wealth in a uniform way until teachers reach conventional
retirement age, such as that associated with
Social Security.
The
Social Security Administration (SSA) allows widows and widowers to collect
retirement and disability
benefits based on their deceased spouses» work records.
Retirement income in the United States has been described as a three - legged stool composed of
Social Security benefits, personal savings, and employer -
based retirement plans.
However, for
Social Security purposes, your normal
retirement age — the age at which you can collect unreduced
Social Security retirement benefits — ranges from 65 to 67,
based on your date of birth.
It also means lower
retirement income later,
based upon lower 401 (k) contributions and
Social Security benefits.
The practical impact of this formula is that a worker with lower wages might expect to receive a
social security benefit that replaces about 45 % of those wages on an inflation - adjusted
basis, assuming the worker retires at full
retirement age.
File and Suspend allowed you (generally the higher earner in a couple) to file for, but suspend taking, your
Social Security retirement benefits while permitting your spouse and / or eligible dependents to collect
benefits based on your earnings record.
In initial computation, a worker's (wage earner's)
base years for computing
Social Security benefits are the years after 1950 up to the year before entitlement to
retirement or disability insurance
benefits.
The «claim now, claim more later» strategy outlined in a new study by the Center for
Retirement Research at Boston College is
based on the fact that married individuals are entitled to either a
Social Security benefit based on their own earnings or to a spousal
benefit equal to one - half of their spouse's full
retirement benefit.
I understand that delaying taking
social security from full
retirement age (67,
based on my birth year) until age 70 results in a 24 % increase in the monthly
benefit, or 8 % per year.
Keep in mind that the savings rate calculations so far have been
based on certain assumptions about
Social Security retirement benefits, the real rate of return you can expect on your investments, and a safe withdrawal rate from your
retirement savings.
Your PIA is the
base benefit you will receive from
Social Security at your full
retirement age.
Social Security benefits are
based on a three - part formula applied to earnings in the same way as the
Social Security retirement formula.
Without changes, the
Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted by 2034 and there will be enough money to pay only about 79 cents for each dollar of scheduled
benefits at that time, declining to 74 cents by 2090 (
based on the current formula).1 This is a reminder that taxpayers are ultimately responsible for funding their own
retirements and that their future
Social Security benefits may be lower than indicated by the Retirement Estimator.
Based on this information and your actual earnings history as maintained by the Social Security Administration, the Retirement Estimator generates an estimate of the amount you would receive if you were to retire at age 62 (the earliest date you can receive benefits), the amount if you waited until full retirement age (which currently ranges from 65 to 67, based on year of birth), and the larger benefit you would receive if you continued working until age 70 before claiming retirement bene
Based on this information and your actual earnings history as maintained by the
Social Security Administration, the
Retirement Estimator generates an estimate of the amount you would receive if you were to retire at age 62 (the earliest date you can receive
benefits), the amount if you waited until full
retirement age (which currently ranges from 65 to 67,
based on year of birth), and the larger benefit you would receive if you continued working until age 70 before claiming retirement bene
based on year of birth), and the larger
benefit you would receive if you continued working until age 70 before claiming
retirement benefits.
However, for
Social Security purposes, your normal
retirement age - the age at which you can collect unreduced
Social Security retirement benefits - ranges from 65 to 67,
based on your date of birth.
That's because the prospect of a comfortable
retirement based largely on
Social Security benefits or monthly pension payments is less certain than at any time since the Great Depression.
As a general guideline
based on a
retirement age of 67, which is the full
Social Security benefits age for those born in 1960 or later, aim to:
Also, many disability income policies reduce
benefits based on other income to which you may be entitled, such as sick leave pay, disability
retirement income, and
Social Security disability
benefits.
Another reason older Americans might not bother is that monthly
retirement income from the
Social Security Administration results in lower nutrition assistance
benefits, since monthly
benefit amounts are
based on a person's income and expenses.