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Benefit Amount
April 1, 2023
If I Retire A Week Before My 65th Birthday Will It Affect The Amount I Receive?
March 31, 2023
Will My Benefit Amount Be Cut In Half If My Daughter Gets Approved For Disability On Her Dad's Record?
March 27, 2023
If Some Of My Survivor Benefits Are Withheld Due To My Earnings Will They Be Repaid In Any Way If I Later Switch To My Own Benefits?
March 4, 2023
If I Work 32 Hours A Week For The Next 4 Years Will It Change The Amount That I'd Get From Social Security?
February 19, 2023
If My Client Continues To Work Beyond Age 70 How Would It Impact Her Benefit?
February 17, 2023
Will My Wife's Payment Be Increased If She Delays Receiving Benefits Until After Reaching Full Retirement Age?
February 3, 2023
Should I Be Penalized With A Lower Benefit For Selling Assets From My IRA?
January 28, 2023
If I Take My SS Now But End Up Withdrawing My Claim, Will My Wife's Spousal Benefit Recalculate To The Date I Reapply?
January 6, 2023
Why Would I Apply For Benefits If Social Security Can't Give Me A Final Amount?
January 3, 2023
Will My Wife's Benefit Rise Or Stay The Same When I Take My Own Benefits?
November 27, 2022
Do I Get Both The 8% Annual Increase For Waiting Until Age 70 To Claim My Benefits And The 8.7% COLA, Or Just The Higher Of The Two?
November 16, 2022
Can My Friend Start Drawing His Benefits Three Months Prior To Age 70 And Still Get His Full Age 70 Benefit Amount?
October 24, 2022
Why Doesn't My Wife's Benefit Estimate Reflect An Increase From Her Recent Earnings?
October 21, 2022
Why Didn't My Age 70 Estimate On The SSA Website Change To Reflect The Last COLA?
October 18, 2022
How Much Of A Percentage Increase Are We Receiving After The Cut To Medicare Premiums?
October 8, 2022
Is The Fact That I Haven't Been Able To Work Much This Year Reducing My PIA?
August 28, 2022
Are Only The Earnings That I Had Up Until Full Retirement Age Used To Calculate My Benefit Rate?
August 17, 2022
If I Take Widow's Benefits Will It Impact My Own Benefit That I Intend To Take At Age 70?
July 6, 2022
Will The Income I Receive From Owning A Business Hurt The Amount I Get Or Penalize Me?
May 26, 2022
If I File At Age 70 Shouldn't I Expect To Receive The Maximum Benefit Amount?
May 26, 2022
If I Start SS After FRA And Then Suspend Benefits WIll My Benefit Rate Be Higher Due To DRCs And COLAs?
April 4, 2022
Am I Entitled To A Slightly Higher Amount Because I Started My Benefits Two Months After Turning FRA?
February 22, 2022
How Would Moving To Sweden Affect The Calculation Of My U.S. Social Security Retirement Benefit?
February 11, 2022
If I Apply For Retirement Benefits Will My Disability Payment Be Reduced?
February 5, 2022
Can My Wife And Daughter Switch Their Benefits To My Account When I Apply For My Benefits?
February 1, 2022
Will Social Security Automatically Adjust My Benefit Rate If I Continue Working?
January 27, 2022
Is There Any Way To Ask Social Security How They Calculated My And My Daughter's Benefit Rates?
January 27, 2022
Is My Husband's Benefit Estimate On Social Security's Website Accurate If No Earnings Are Shown For 2021?
January 17, 2022
When My Wife Turns Age 70 Will She Have The Opportunity To Collect More?
December 29, 2021
Will My Estimated Benefit Rates Now Increase Because Of The COLA Increase?
December 2, 2021
What Will My Wife's Spousal Rate Be If I Start Drawing My Benefits At FRA?
November 11, 2021
Why Is There Such A Big Difference Between My Online Estimate And What I Was Told By Social Security?
November 1, 2021
If You Stop Working At Age 62 But Wait Until Age 67 To Collect Do You Get Full Benefits?
October 31, 2021
Why Doesn't Your Benefit Rate Go Up When You Reach Full Retirement Age If You're Getting SSDI?
About the Author
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Laurence J. Kotlikoff is a William Fairfield Warren Professor and Professor of Economics at Boston University, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Professor Kotlikoff received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1977. Kotlikoff is the Director of the Fiscal Analysis Center.
A New York Times Bestselling author, he has written nineteen books and hundreds of professional articles and op-eds. He is a frequent television and radio guest. His columns have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Financial Times, the Boston Globe, Bloomberg, Forbes, Yahoo.com, Fortune, and other major publications. In 2014, The Economist named him one of the world's 25 most influential economists