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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.
(You can start the sign-up process here up to three months before the month of your 65th birthday.) By contrast, you can start collecting Social Security anytime from age 62 to 70 and the later you start, the bigger your benefit. Just how much bigger depends on when you were born. Americans born from 1943 to 1954 have a ânormalâ or âfullâ retirement age of 66.