Are You Missing Your Opportunity to Maximize Your Social Security Benefits?
The larger your Social Security benefit, the more financial security you'll have as a retiree. To understand how to maximize your Social Security, you need to know how benefits are calculated. While delaying the start of your retirement benefits can raise the monthly amount you receive, you won't be able to do that until late in life -- and some people can't afford to do that because they must retire early and need Social Security to do it.
