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.
Settling an Estate. To be eligible for a Social Security benefit, a person must be alive for the whole month for which a benefit is paid. The benefit paid on the third of a month is based on survival through the entire prior month, so if the deceased died on the last day of March, the benefit paid on April 3 must be returned to the Social Security Administration.