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At age 62, your benefit amount is about 25 percent lower than your full benefit at age 66. If you delay receiving your Social Security until age 70, the monthly amount is 32 percent more than you would get at full retirement age. From 62 to 70, that comes to a monthly increase of $570 or $6,840 a year.
Once you reach what Social Security calls full retirement age, you can work and earn as much money as you want without any reduction in your Social Security retirement benefits. For someone your age now, full retirement age will be 66 (not 65, as it was for most of Social Security's history). However, you don't have to wait until full retirement age to collect Social Security retirement benefits. You could collect your Social Security retirement benefits as early as age 62.