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General information on Social Security retirement benefits
How benefits are calculated
- How You Earn Credits. SSA Publication No. 05-10072
- Understanding the Benefits. SSA Publication No. 05-10024
- Your Retirement Benefit: How It Is Figured. SSA Publication No. 05-10070
- Social Security Benefit Amounts
- Full retirement age and benefit reductions by year of birth
- Maximum taxable earnings, 1937-present
- How To Correct Your Social Security Earnings Record. SSA Publication No. 05-10081
When to claim benefits
- When To Start Receiving Retirement Benefits. SSA Publication No. 05-10147
- Delayed retirement credits
- Other things to consider
- Boost Your Social Security Payout By $100,000 – CBS MoneyWatch.com
- Planning Your Retirement: How to Take Spousal Benefits – CBS MoneyWatch.com
- Center for Retirement Research: Trends in Social Security Claiming 2015
Working and Social Security benefits
Cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs)
How to apply for benefits
- Apply Online For Social Security Benefits, SSA Publication No. 05-10032
- Social Security Forms
- What You Need To Know When You Get Retirement Or Survivors Benefits. SSA Publication No. 05-10077
- A Guide For Representative Payees. SSA Publication No. 05-10076
- Overpayments. SSA Publication No. 05-10098
- What You Can Do Online. SSA Publication No. 05-10121
Special situations
- If You Are Self-Employed. SSA Publication No. 05-10022
- If You Work For A Nonprofit Organization. SSA Publication No. 05-10027
- Windfall Elimination Provision. SSA Publication No. 05-10045
- Government Pension Offset. SSA Publication No. 05-10007
- How International Agreements Can Help You. SSA Publication No. 05-10180
- Military Service And Social Security SSA Publication No. 05-10017
- Special Payments After Retirement. SSA Publication No. 05-10063
- Your Payments While You Are Outside the United States. SSA Publication No. 05-10137
- Social Security International Programs: International Programs and Resources
Trust fund financing and reform proposals
Other references
- Social Security Program Fact Sheet
- Fast Facts and Figures About Social Security
- SSA Release on the Closure of the Social Security “Interest-Free Loan” Loophole
- If You’re Disabled… How to Get the Social Security Benefits You Deserve -; Wealth & Retirement
- Social Security News
- Center for Retirement Research: Squared Away Blog
- Center for Retirement Research: Special Projects
- Annual Retirement Confidence Survey – EBRI
- “Behavioral and Psychological Aspects of the Retirement Decision.” Office of Retirement and Disability Policy.
- “6 Tricks to Make the Best Retirement Decisions,” by Robert Powell, MarketWatch. June 2014.
- How to Safelist an Email Address