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Freein05 · 05-12-2007, 07:49 PM

I am taking my SS at 62 to enjoy the extra income to have fun and travel while I am still healthy. I want to get back what I have been putting in for over 35 years. I left the work force about two years before I was eligible for SS and as I recall the numbers I got from SS for drawing it at 62 and 65 were not a lot different. I think it was 2 or 3 hundred dollars a month more if I had waited to 65. Having more fun now is more important than a couple of hundred dollars a month three years from now. SS is gravy for us.

05-12-2007, 07:49 PM	#15
Freein05 Recycles dryer sheets Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 128	I am taking my SS at 62 to enjoy the extra income to have fun and travel while I am still healthy. I want to get back what I have been putting in for over 35 years. I left the work force about two years before I was eligible for SS and as I recall the numbers I got from SS for drawing it at 62 and 65 were not a lot different. I think it was 2 or 3 hundred dollars a month more if I had waited to 65. Having more fun now is more important than a couple of hundred dollars a month three years from now. SS is gravy for us.