Aug 12, 2025 · You can work and collect social security benefits, but the amount you receive will depend on whether you’ve reached your full retirement age.

Oct 6, 2025 · What’s the earliest you can start Social Security? The earliest you can start retirement benefits is age 62. Your payments would begin in your first full month as a 62-year-old — that is, the …

Oct 10, 2018 · Full retirement age is the age when you are entitled to 100 percent of your Social Security benefits, which are determined by your lifetime earnings.

Apr 16, 2025 · The basics of social security retirement benefits, including how benefits work, how payments are calculated and awarded, and what you need to apply.

5 days ago · Social Security retirement benefits are primarily based on two factors: your average income over your working life and your age at the time of claim. You get to decide when to start collecting …

Oct 10, 2018 · If you file for Social Security before full retirement age, the benefit reduction is based on how many months you claimed early retirement.

Oct 10, 2018 · In this case, Social Security considers you to have attained full retirement age on the last day of the previous month. For example, if you were born June 1, 1959, you would attain full …

Oct 10, 2018 · The same is true of spousal and survivor benefits: If you claim them early, they are reduced, and they stay reduced even when you pass full retirement age. If you develop filer’s …

Oct 10, 2018 · Social Security calculates SSDI as though you reached full retirement age when you became disabled. Read to learn more.

Oct 10, 2018 · The earliest you can apply for Social Security retirement benefits is four months before the month you want your benefits to start, and the earliest your benefits can start is your first full …