Your claiming age affects the size of the Social Security benefit you receive. Errors in your earnings record could unfairly reduce your monthly benefit, so check this before you apply.

The minimum eligibility age for Social Security differs from the program's full retirement age, which is increasing in 2025.

In 1983, Congress passed a law that gradually increased the age at which people may receive 100% of their Social Security ...

To figure out when you can claim your full retirement benefits or what you can claim if you retire early, use the Social Security online calculator.

If you wait to claim spousal benefits until your full retirement age, you can receive up to half the amount of your spouse's ...

who notes that AARP has a Social Security resource center online. "But it is also a one-time decision. If you claim before your full retirement age, that penalty will stay with you for the rest of ...

Social Security's "full retirement age" is set to increase next ... The final change will apply to workers born in or after 1960 and will require that those workers wait until they turn 67 to ...