Planning Briefs
Social Security Options Remain
Published Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at: 7:00 AM EDT
Recent federal legislation ended several strategies that could help you maximize Social Security retirement benefits. But with some advance planning, you still can take advantage of a few things the new law didn't change.
Under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, three strategies have been eliminated:
1. File and suspend: A higher-earning spouse could apply for retirement benefits at full retirement age, which is age 66 for most baby boomers. Then the same spouse suspended the benefits, usually until age 70, when the amount of monthly payments from the government would be higher. In the meantime, the lower-earning spouse claimed spousal benefits, which would be larger than the other spouse would have received on his or her own.
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