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A Reddit user has questions about the online Social Security calculator. He wasn’t sure if it was in today’s dollars, which it is. There are other tools you can use to see the impact of inflation. Are ...

The practices of estate planning and financial planning must take into account the timing and amount of the client’s Social Security benefits. This isn’t a simple process and calculation of the ...

A Reddit user pointed out a flaw in the Social Security break-even calculators. He warned that it could take longer than expected to break even because you may need to take more money out of ...

Explore the Social Security benefit amounts you can receive at various retirement ages and whether the monthly amount or the lifetime amount matters more to you.

Married or divorced, you may be eligible to collect spousal Social Security benefits. These benefits may be taxed at the federal level, depending on your adjusted gross income. A financial planner can ...

A popular pastime among Americans of a certain age is to wage an internal debate about when to claim Social Security: At age 62? Sixty-five? Seventy? In purely monetary terms, as it turns out, the ...

Those planning for retirement, or inching ever-closer to that day where retirement will become a reality, certainly have a lot to look forward to. Sure, there's going to be some hurdles to jump over ...