Attention, Baby Boomers: This Little-Known Social Security Mulligan Can Fatten Up Your Monthly Benefit
For more than two decades, national pollster Gallup has been surveying retirees to gauge their reliance on America's top retirement program, Social Security. Over that span, between 80% and 90% of polled seniors have noted that they lean on their monthly Social Security benefit, in some capacity, to make ends meet.
Gallup's surveys intimate that a majority of future retirees are likely to be in the same boat. In other words, getting as much out of Social Security as possible is going to be a necessity to ensure the financial well-being of future retirees -- and this includes baby boomers!
But in order to maximize what you'll receive from Social Security, you'll first need to understand the factors that can influence your monthly benefit -- including those that may not be readily apparent.
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