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).
Waiting to claim on your own record provides delayed retirement credits for
each year after full retirement age (FRA).
In fact, «delaying Social Security until age 70 can be beneficial since retirees will receive an 8 % gain
every year after full retirement age,» says Carlos Dias Jr., wealth manager at Excel Tax & Wealth Group in Lake Mary, Fla..
For
each year after full retirement age that you delay taking benefits, delayed retirement credits increase your monthly benefit amount.
Not exact matches
After that, two months are added to the
full retirement age for every
year until 1960, when the
full retirement age reaches 67.
If you fall into the first category — that is, you won't reach
full retirement age until
after the current
year — you face the stricter form of the earnings test.
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.
Each
year after 1954 increases the
retirement age by two months until the
full retirement age reaches 67
years old if you were born in 1960 or later.
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.
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.
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 %.
If you fall into the first category — that is, you won't reach
full retirement age until
after the current
year — you face the stricter form of the earnings test.
After that, two months are added to the
full retirement age for every
year until 1960, when the
full retirement age reaches 67.
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.
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.
In fact, if Bill just wanted to match his current income (
after retirement savings) of $ 45,500 a
year, he could retire at
age 62 — three
full years earlier — and take all of his living expenses out of his
retirement savings for the first three
years, then have a safe withdrawal rate for the next 30
years supplemented with Social Security to «bring home» $ 45,500 a
year.
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.
Claim them
after full retirement age, and you get «delayed
retirement credits» that can increase your benefits by 8 % per
year you wait.
People who qualify for social security
retirement benefits can begin receiving those benefits in the month
after they reach
age 62, or any month
after that, even though they won't reach
full retirement age for a few more
years.
After full retirement age — the monthly benefit increases for every
year claiming is delayed, up until
age 70.
Look up your
full retirement age, which was 65 for many
years but has gradually been increased to 67 for people born
after 1959.