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Let's Stop Shaming the Claiming
Nevin Adams in Data 'Points' Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
Nov. 3, 2025

"[It's] hard to read an article about Social Security these days that doesn't proclaim the financial benefits of waiting till 70.... [M]any in the financial services industry ... are increasingly prone to labeling those who take those well-earned benefits 'on time' as being foolhardy at best ... [T]here's more to these types of decisions than 'the math' ... [S]ome people get so caught up in a slide rule exercise they forget that there are real, rational, personal reasons for the timing of the claiming decision."  MORE >>

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