Workers who claim benefits early can significantly reduce their lifetime income. Claiming Social Security at age 62 results ...

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If you really want to retire at 62 and collect Social Security, go for it. You’ve worked hard enough. You’ve paid your dues.

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A bill in the Senate seeks to restore retirement benefits to former state employees of the John Manchin Sr. Health Care Center. The Manchin Center was one of four West ...

Claiming benefits at age 62 permanently reduces that income by about 25% to 30% compared with claiming at full retirement age ...

Social Security typically pays benefits on Wednesdays. The first wave of payments will be sent on the second Wednesday of the month, March 11, with subsequent payments going out on the third (March 18 ...

Once you start collecting Social Security, the size of your checks will change annually. There are of course the annual cost of living adjustments (COLAs). Designed to help cover the costs of ...

From time to time, we get a listener question on our Sunday morning show on WCCO that opens the door to a much larger ...