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Recomputations

May 24, 2023

Is It Too Soon To Expect An Answer From Social Security Regarding My Request For A Benefit Recalculation?

April 7, 2023

How Do I Request A Review To Recalculate My Benefit Rate?

December 29, 2022

Will My 2022 Earnings Replace A Lower Earnings Year That Was Used To Calculate My Benefit?

December 16, 2022

Is There A Form To Use If You Want To Waive A Recomputation?

October 30, 2022

How Do I Get Social Security To Recalculate My Benefit Amount?

October 20, 2022

Will Social Security Automatically Give My Credit For My Higher 2021 Earnings?

August 1, 2022

Should My Benefit Amount Be Recalculated After Each Additional Year I Work?

April 28, 2022

Why Hasn't My Benefit Rate Been Increased Yet?

March 21, 2022

Where Does It Say In The Law That My Benefit Can Be Recalculated Annually?

March 5, 2022

When Will My Benefits Be Recalculated?

March 2, 2022

Was It A Mistake For Me To Request A Recomputation Of My Benefit Rate?

February 7, 2022

When Social Security Recalculates My Benefit Amount For Last Year's Earnings, Will It Be Retroactive To January 2022?

January 20, 2022

Will The Fact That I Was Penalized For Going Over The Earnings Limit Have An Affect On My Future Payment Amount?

November 27, 2021

Why Didn't I Get A Benefit Increase?

June 1, 2021

Do You Have Any Idea Why My Benefit Amount Hasn't Been Recalculated Yet?

May 27, 2021

When Will My Benefit Recalculation Be Processed?

January 9, 2021

What Can I Do To Make Sure That Social Security Computed By Benefit Amount Correctly?

December 7, 2020

Will My Benefit Rate Be Recalculated?

December 7, 2020

How Do I Ask For A Recalculation?

November 26, 2020

Will My Higher Earnings Initiate A Benefit Recalculation?

November 19, 2020

Who Is Right, Me Or The Social Security Employee I Spoke With?

October 31, 2020

Should I File A SSA-561?

October 26, 2020

Should Social Security Pay Me Back Pay?

September 3, 2020

If I Keep Working After I Start Collecting Benefits Will My Benefit Rate Increase?

September 3, 2020

Do You Know When SSA Might Catch Up With Recomputing Benefits?

August 19, 2020

Should Social Security Have Adjusted The Rate Of Benefits I Collected Prior To FRA?

April 11, 2019

Will I See An Increase In My Survivor Benefit Rate If Some Of My Benefits Were Withheld Due To The Earnings Test?

November 28, 2017

What Happens To The Social Security I'm Paying Now?

November 28, 2017

Was What I Was Told Correct?

October 19, 2017

When Will My Benefit Rate Be Recalculated To Give Me Credit For The Months That My Benefits Were Suspended?

July 6, 2017

Sould I Reapply To Get A Higher Rate?

October 1, 2016

Will Social Security Do What We Were Told?

July 6, 2016

Am I Entitled to Increased Benefits?

July 4, 2016

What Will My Benefit Be at Age 70 If I Continue to Work?

June 24, 2016

Are Benefits Ever Recalculated?

June 20, 2016

What Happens If I Keep Working?

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