Week 48 Day 7: Your Social Security Strategy: Making the Claiming Decision

Social Security is not an all-or-nothing decision. It is a claiming-age decision that depends on your health, your finances, your marital status, and your other income sources. For most healthy people...

Social Security is not an all-or-nothing decision. It is a claiming-age decision that depends on your health, your finances, your marital status, and your other income sources. For most healthy people, especially the higher earner in a married couple, delaying to 70 is the single best financial move available. It is a guaranteed 8% annual raise that no stock, bond, or annuity can match.