Welcome to Maybrook. Whether you expect to be here for a short time or for the rest of your life, we hope you find Maybrook to be a friendly, caring and supportive community where everyone is received warmly by. Over the past three years we have gained an even greater appreciation for our community and its spirit.
In short, the best advice for claiming Social Security is to wait. Yet 41 percent of men and 46 percent of women retire at age 62 on the smallest possible benefit check. Only 14.3 percent of men and 9.7 percent of women wait to collect their full check at age 66.
If the intention of a retiring employee were to maximize the amount of unused annual leave to be paid, then the best time of year to retire would be December 31 for a FERS-covered employee and January 1st, 2nd or 3rd for a CSRS employee.