Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security (The Get What's Yours Series)

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To learn more, visit GetWhatsYours. His company websites are ESPlanner and MaximizeMySocialSecurity. KotlikoffLaurence J. Philip MoellerJournalist Philip Moeller writes about retirement for Money and authors the Ask Phil Medicare column for PBS. Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston Universi

From determining the best age to claim (hint: it’s not what you’ve been told) to figuring out the intricacies of spousal benefits to avoiding the ‘gotchas’ that can reduce your checks, this must read guide is truly that. The book translates—into often entertaining English—the many convoluted rules that make up the Social Security program. This great book tells you how and it’s funny, too!” (Jane Bryant Quinn, author of Making the Most of your Money NOW )“Social Security is the biggest source of retirement income for many Americans that just means that Get What's Yours's tricks and tips will be ever more relevant. “Getting smart about Social Security can put tens of thousands of extra dollars in your pocket. With that in mind, start by reading, Get What’s Yours. Invaluable.” (Glenn Ruffenach The Wall Street Journal)“An in

For all these people—and for their families and friends—Get What’s Yours has proven to be an invaluable, and therefore indispensable, tool.. (Some of those people are even in the book.)Changes to Social Security that take effect in 2016 make it more important than ever to wait as long as possible (until age 70, if possible) to claim Social Security benefits. It is an engaging manual of tactics and strategies written by well-known financial commentators that is unobtainable elsewhere. Moreover, they demonstrate that what you don’t know can seriously hurt you: wrong decisions about which Social Security benefits to apply for cost individual retirees tens of thousands of dollars in lost income every year. The new law also has significant implications for those who wish to claim divorced sp