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Top Factors to Consider Before Starting Your Social Security Benefits

Top Factors to Consider Before Starting Your Social Security Benefits

Update: 2025-11-12
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Navigating Social Security can feel like running through an airport for a connecting flight—one wrong move could cost you thousands. Ready to make sure you don’t miss out on the benefits you’ve worked for all your life?


In this episode, April Schoen breaks down the crucial Social Security decisions every retiree faces—and reveals the game-changing strategies to maximize your benefits.


You’ll discover…

  • Why your Social Security “full retirement age” is more important than you think
  • The surprising trade-offs between claiming benefits at 62, 67, and 70
  • How working in retirement could shrink—or boost—your Social Security checks
  • Overlooked spousal and survivor benefits that could change your income story
  • What looming Social Security changes in 2034 could mean for your retirement
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Top Factors to Consider Before Starting Your Social Security Benefits

Top Factors to Consider Before Starting Your Social Security Benefits

John H. Curry