Your Social Security checks are one of your most important and valuable sources of retirement income for two big reasons. First, your benefits are guaranteed until you pass away, so you can't run out of them. Second, the cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) are built into the benefits program, protecting your benefits against the damaging impact of inflation.

Since your Social Security checks are so crucial, it's worth trying to make them bigger if you can. The good news is that there are several ways to do that, both during your career and when you've reached retirement age. Here are four surefire methods of supersizing your checks that you may want to try.

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