In 8 years, I will qualify for an average Social Security income. I have no retirement saved and am not a homeowner but I ...

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Your Social Security benefit is based on your income during your 35 highest-earning years. The longer you wait to apply for Social Security, the larger your checks will be, until you qualify for your ...

Knowing when to retire can be as complicated as knowing where, exactly, to retire. From economic to emotional and even ...

Can you apply for Social Security online? The answer to that question is you betcha. The Social Security administration welcomes applications online, in person, and even over the phone. To do so in ...

A new poll of non-retirees in the U.S. has delivered striking results on Americans’ plans for claiming Social Security ...

The Office of Personnel Management prepares for the end-of-the-year “surge” of new retirements that will be arriving at OPM next month. In January 2023, OPM received more than 12,000 new claims to be ...

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Last week, we looked at three former federal employees who all made the same error when completing form RI 92-19, FERS Application for Deferred or Postponed ...