There's a lot riding on your Social Security filing decision. If you claim benefits ahead of full retirement age, which is 67 ...

Along with private pensions and savings/investments, Social Security benefits are one leg of the three-legged stool of retirement planning. However, according to a 2020 study conducted by the National ...

When you're nearing retirement age, you have to decide when you want to claim Social Security benefits. It can be tough to answer this question for many reasons. One of the biggest issues is that the ...

Age 62 is the earliest point to claim Social Security. Filing then will result in reduced monthly benefits. It's not necessarily a mistake to file that early, though. On a recent trip, my husband and ...

How Social Security works is something that would benefit all of us to understand, and yet, partly because of an overall lack of financial literacy, it can be quite a mysterious beast. Fortunately, ...

Each week, in our Ask the Editor series, Joy Taylor, The Kiplinger Tax Letter editor, answers questions on topics submitted by readers. This week she's looking at six questions on the taxation of ...