The cost of having a problematic refrigerator compressor repaired depends on several factors, the chief ones being the size of the compressor and whether you choose to go with a new or reconditioned compressor.
If you are under full retirement age for the entire year, we deduct $1 from your benefit payments for every $2 you earn above the annual limit. For 2017, that limit is $16,920. In the year you reach full retirement age, we deduct $1 in benefits for every $3 you earn above a different limit. In 2017, the limit on your earnings is $44,880 but we only count earnings before the month you reach your full retirement age.
The limit applies only to workers receiving benefits between age 62 and full retirement age. For the years before the one in which you turn 66, you're allowed to earn up to a ceiling, $14,640 a year for 2012, before Social Security begins to withhold some or all of your benefits. There's another ceiling, currently $38,880, that applies just to the year in which you reach full retirement age.