Want to Avoid Shrinking Your Social Security Checks? Work This Many Years

Your Social Security check will probably be one of your most important sources of retirement income, and with good reason. This money won't stop coming as long as you're still alive, and it reduces the effects of inflation with periodic cost of living adjustments (COLAs). 

Since your retirement benefits will be instrumental in supporting you, don't make mistakes that inadvertently reduce them. You'll want to work enough years to avoid shrinking your monthly payments. 

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