Get What's Yours - Revised & Updated: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security
Written by Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Philip Moeller and Paul Solman
Narrated by Jeff Cummings
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Social Security law has changed! Get What's Yours has been revised and updated to reflect new regulations that take effect on April 29, 2016.
Get What's Yours has proven itself to be the definitive book about how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits. It is an engaging manual of tactics and strategies written by well-known financial commentators that is unobtainable elsewhere. You could try reading all 2,728 rules of the Social Security system (and the thousands of explanations of these rules), but academia's Kotlikoff, the popular press's Moeller, and public television's Solman explain the Social Security system just as comprehensively, and a lot more comprehensibly. Moreover, they demonstrate that what you don't know can seriously hurt you: wrong decisions about which Social Security benefits to apply for cost individual retirees tens of thousands of dollars in lost income every year. (Some of those people are even in the book.)
Changes to Social Security that take effect in 2016 make it more important than ever to wait as long as possible (until age 70, if possible) to claim Social Security benefits. The new law also has significant implications for those who wish to claim divorced spousal benefits (and how many Social Security recipients even know about divorced spousal benefits?). Besides addressing these and other issues, this revised edition contains a chapter explaining how Medicare rules can shape Social Security decisions.
Many other personal-finance books briefly address Social Security, but none offers the full, authoritative, yet conversational analysis of Get What's Yours.
Get What's Yours explains Social Security benefits through basic strategies and stirring stories. It covers the most frequent benefit scenarios faced by married retired couples; by divorced retirees; by widows and widowers. It explains what to do if you're a retired parent of dependent children; disabled; an eligible beneficiary who continues to work. It addresses the tax consequences of your choices, as well as the financial implications for other investments. It does all this and more.
There are more than 52 million Americans aged 54 to 69. Ten thousand of them reach Social Security's full retirement age of 66 every day. For all these people-and for their families and friends-Get What's Yours has proven to be an invaluable, and therefore indispensable, tool.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Laurence J. Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University and president of Economic Security Planning, Inc. His company websites are ESPlanner.com and MaximizeMySocialSecurity.com. To learn more, visit GetWhatsYours.org.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Get what's yours, the secrets to maxing out your social security By Kotlikoff_ Laurence J - Solman_ Paul - Moeller_ Philip Sounds like so much information, take notes so you can get the most out of the SS system.So many tips and so much information you have to listen to it a few times to make sure you get it all.I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Given the choice of learning 3000 pages of Social Security law and tens of thousands of regulations, or having two front teeth pulled without anesthetic, most would choose the latter, if only because it’s over quicker. Get What’s Yours understands this. It presents the basic background, basic facts, basic tips, and even the basic SSA form, in an environment of real scenarios. The asides are cheerful or acidic, as appropriate, and it mitigates the confusion by constantly hammering at the basics. At first I thought it annoying, but slowing down, I realized I needed to see it all again, in action, to help it sink in. It also means you can go right to the section that concerns you, because the foundation points will be there (again).This book is necessary for three reasons: Social Security is not intuitive, and sometimes makes no sense at all. Two, Americans act against their best interests, leaving all kinds of money on the table. Three, there is usually a “however” with Social Security rules.Worse, Social Security is now up to three million requests every week, but Congress keeps cutting back budget, staff, hours and whole offices. Combine that with the complexity factor, and the authors conclude you cannot trust what Social Security advises. Great.The way we go after Social Security says two things: Americans are poorer than they pretend, and they don’t know how much they’re giving up. Only about 3% wait until age 70 to claim, where the figures show a dramatic, peak difference (76%) over claims at 62, when the biggest group files – for the least amount offered. As an aside, there is an annual survey that always says the same thing: nearly 50% of Americans couldn’t raise an emergency $2500 in 30 days, not from savings or even from friends and family. Nearly half of Americans simply cannot postpone Social Security.The most important tip is to wait until 70 before taking benefits. The next most important tip is to register at 66, but at the same time suspend benefits until 70. This not only allows your rate to grow 8% a year for four years, but it also allows your spouse to claim spousal benefits (half of yours) until s/he reaches 66 and can claim benefits. There are a lot of ifs ands and buts, so the book becomes a tremendous resource. The answers are clear and cogent.As a consultant who works in different environments all the time, I developed a saying that I could play by anybody’s rules, as long as I knew what they were. Get What’s Yours tells you what they are.David Wineberg
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I found this to be a really good book about when to claim Social Security benefits. What I learned from reading this book should gain me thousands of dollars in the future.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More of an eye opener than a how to do it book. It clearly shows that planning for Social Security is a lot more complicated than just assuming you'll retire and file. Based on a plan that differed from what I think we were going to do we're going to get about $35K more than we anticipated in the first three years of retirement, and over $200K through both my and my wife's estimated life span.
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