Not Happy With Your First Social Security Check? Here's What You Can Do About It.
There's a reason it's so important to put a lot of thought into your Social Security filing. The monthly benefit you lock in at the time you sign up is generally the same monthly benefit you can look forward to for life.
This doesn't account for cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs), of course, which are designed to help your monthly payments keep pace with inflation. But for the most part, if you file for Social Security at a point in time that renders you eligible for a $2,000 monthly benefit, you should expect to collect $2,000 a month plus COLAs as applicable.
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