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.
You can sign up for Social Security as early as age 62, but your benefit will be cut by 25% to 30% compared with what you'd receive at full retirement age. For people born after 1954, full retirement age gradually rises; for those born in 1960 and later, it's age 67.