What if you claim
benefits after your full retirement age?
«f & s» is the age they will «file and suspend» — this will always be FRA because a worker can only suspend
their benefits after their full retirement age and after FRA the benefit does not increase.
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.
If you delay your
retirement benefits until
after full retirement age, you also may be eligible for delayed
retirement credits that would increase your monthly
benefit.
If you choose to start collecting your Social Security
retirement benefit before or
after you reach
full retirement age, your PIA, which we discussed in the previous section, will be permanently adjusted to compensate according to these rules:
The exact amount that
benefits are reduced or increased depends on how many months before or
after your
full retirement age you file for
benefits.
If you were born
after 1937, you also can start your Social Security
benefits as early as
age 62, but your
full retirement age is more than 65.
In addition,
after you reach
full retirement age, we will recalculate your
benefit amount to give you credit for any months in which you did not receive a
benefit because of your earnings.
If you delay your claim until your
full retirement age — which ranges from 66 to 67 depending on when you were born — or even longer, until you are
age 70, your monthly
benefit will grow and, in turn, so will your surviving spouse's
benefit after your death.
The
age at which you can receive
full retirement benefits is already scheduled to increase to 67 for anyone born in 1960 or
after, and it's likely to go even higher.
This is how your income affects your Social Security
benefits before and
after full retirement age.
Apparently if you continue to work
after full retirement age (which you will have to do if SS is your main source of
retirement income), they continue to add slight
benefit increases.
If you delay collecting Social Security until
after your
full retirement age, you will get a permanent increase in your
benefits.
If you can delay
benefits until
after your
full retirement age, you receive about an 8 percent increase each year up to 70.
For every year a person waits to receive
benefits after reaching
full retirement age, the SSA increases his
benefit by up to 8 percent through
age 69.
Here is how it works:
after reaching
full retirement age, Social Security will recalculate your
benefit amount to give you credit for any months in which you did not receive some
benefit because of your earnings.
If you choose to start collecting your Social Security
retirement benefit before or
after you reach
full retirement age, your PIA, which we discussed in the previous section, will be permanently adjusted to compensate according to these rules:
If your
full retirement age is older than 65 (that is, you were born
after 1937), you still will be able to take your
benefit at
age 62, but the reduction in your
benefit amount will increase compared to those who were born in 1937 or before.
That limitation affects Social Security
benefits received prior to
full your
full retirement age, 66 if you were born between 1943 and 1954, and rising by stages to 67 if you were born
after 1960.
The SSA reduces or increases a person's monthly
benefit depending on whether he retires before or
after his
full retirement age.
I'll receive the same monthly
benefit amount whether I start collecting before or
after my
full retirement age.
According to the calculator on that site, if she is 65 now, her
full retirement age would be 66, so if she retires
after that
age her SS
benefit won't be reduced due to extra income.
Although
full retirement age varies, according to the year in which you were born, anyone born
after 1960 can't retire with
full benefits until their 67th birthday.
Every year
after that you lose another $ 2,400 of your advantage until you reach a break even point, 15 years
after your
benefits began (or 12 years
after your
full retirement age).
Increases the delayed
retirement credit in gradual steps from 3 percent for workers reaching
full benefit retirement age (
age 65) before 1990, to 8 percent for workers reaching
full benefit retirement age after 2008.
You receive three additional years of
benefits (that's 36 more monthly payments than you would have received), but all your payments will be smaller, both before and
after full retirement age.
However,
after you reach
full retirement age, we will recalculate your
benefit amount to give you credit for any months in which you did not receive some
benefit because of your earnings.
Retiring later also provides the opportunity to get a larger monthly Social Security
benefit, because each year a person delays claiming
benefits past
full retirement age (
age 66 for people born between 1943 and 1959;
age 67 for people born
after) increases the monthly payment by about 8 %.
In addition,
after you reach
full retirement age, we will recalculate your
benefit amount to give you credit for any months in which you did not receive a
benefit because of your earnings.
Bear in mind also that your actual
benefit isn't the same as your PIA if you retire before (or
after) you reach
full retirement age, as explained here.
after full retirement age, your surviving spouse may receive your
full benefit amount plus any accumulated delayed
retirement credits.
If your
full retirement age is older than 65 (that is, you were born
after 1937), you still will be able to take your
benefits at
age 62, but the reduction in your
benefit amount will be greater than it is for people who were born before 1938.
Both rules give the same result if your
benefits start exactly three years before your
full retirement age, because 15 years
after the
benefits begin is the same as 12 years
after you reach
full retirement age.
If you begin receiving
benefits more than three years before your
full retirement age, the break - even point will be about 12 years (144 months)
after you reach
full retirement age.
Delay receiving
retirement benefits until
after you reach
full retirement age (any month up to
age 70), you can increase your
benefit by accumulating Delayed
Retirement Credits.
Notice that the first rule above gives the number of months
after full retirement age, and the second rule above gives the number of months
after benefits begin.
The social security program allows you to begin receiving
benefits the month
after you reach
age 62, or to wait until your
full retirement age, or even later.
Even if you don't plan to receive
benefits right away, or decide to wait until
after you reach
full retirement age, you still should sign - up for Medicare three months before your 65th birthday.
If you were born
after 1942, the
age at which
full retirement benefits are payable increases gradually from
age 66 to 67.
If you go back to work and earn enough to lose your
retirement benefits due to the earnings test, those lost
retirement benefits will be recouped in terms of a higher check
after you reach
full retirement age.
(In those days the earnings test applied even
after full retirement age, so people would consider delaying their
benefits if they wanted to continue working
after age 65.)
The break - even point is the number of months
after the start of your
benefit when the total of all your delayed payments will be equal to the total you would have received if you started your payments at
full retirement age.
Don't let that confuse you: the year you turn 62 determines what percentage applies, but you have to forgo
benefits for one or more months
after reaching
full retirement age (which is 65 or later, depending on when you were born) to qualify for the increased
benefit.
If you start receiving
benefits the month
after reaching
full retirement age, you'll receive the
full benefit.
However, you receive your
full Social Security
Retirement Benefits after you reach your
full retirement age (FRA).
This is how your income affects your Social Security
benefits before and
after full retirement age.
For example, those who worked in physically - demanding blue collar jobs were 55 percent more likely to claim
benefits prior to their
full retirement age compared to those in all other occupations
after controlling for other factors (see figure).
You can also receive an increased
benefit by delaying still further, until
after your
full retirement age.
If you file for
benefits after age 60 but below your
full retirement age, you will receive a reduced percentage of the worker's
benefits.
After you reach
full retirement age, Social Security hikes monthly payouts by 8 % for each year you hold off on claiming
benefits up to
age 70.