You'll often hear that it's best not to retire on Social Security alone, because you might struggle to pay the bills with just those monthly benefits. And if you got an estimate of your monthly Social Security benefit a while back, you may be worried about paying your senior expenses solely on that income.

But if it's been a while since you got that estimate and you've recently claimed Social Security, you may find that your payments are actually larger than you expected. Here's why that may have happened.

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