One of the most important retirement decisions you will make is when to apply for Social Security. Several retirement calculators have been developed to help you determine the optimal retirement age ...

Estimate your monthly Social Security retirement benefit using your age, income and when you want to retire. Use this Social Security benefits calculator to estimate your retirement benefits based on ...

Your Social Security benefit also depends on your age when you sign up. You must wait until your full retirement age (FRA) to ...

Rae Hartley Beck first started writing about personal finance in 2011 with a regular column in her college newspaper as a staff writer. Since then she has become a leader in the Financial Independence ...

The age you sign up for Social Security will dictate how much your monthly benefits are worth. When running the numbers, don't just look at monthly income. It's also important to focus on lifetime ...

Retirees will learn in mid-October how much their Social Security benefits will increase next year. Whatever the amount is, many will feel like it's not enough. And they'll probably be right. It's no ...