If you wait until 70 to take Social Security benefits, you will get a monthly check that's substantially bigger than if you claimed it earlier. You could increase your standard benefit by as much as 24%, with hundreds of extra dollars in your bank account each month. 

Despite this, however, you might not want to put off the start of your retirement checks because there's a very good reason it may not pay off in the end.

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