It's no secret that your age should dictate how you invest. Younger people can hold long-term growth stocks through extreme volatility. Older investors typically can't. They usually need to start their retirement with a specific amount of money, as that stash often needs to generate a specific amount of income.

Your investments aren't the only matter to consider as you plan for your eventual retirement, however. Even though it may be years -- or even a couple of decades -- away for you, it's worth thinking about your future Social Security benefits as well. Here are four Social Security tips specifically for anyone born between 1980 and 1995, in the group otherwise known as millennials.

This wasn't always the case, but the Social Security Administration's so-called full retirement age for anyone born in or after 1960 is 67 years of age.

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