Your Social Security benefits will be one of your most important retirement income sources because these benefits won't end during your lifetime. Cost of living adjustments are also built into the benefits formula, which means that you won't lose ground due to inflation. Most other retirement income sources don't come with these guarantees.

Since your benefits can make a big impact on your financial security, it makes sense to do all you can to try to maximize them. Here are three things you can start doing now in order to make that happen.

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