Orchidflower
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After reading a few topics on taking or delaying taking Social Security, here is my dilemma:
I will be 63 this month. I did not take my Social Security yet. If I sign up for it now, I will receive it in something like 3-4 months, but I think I have screwed myself out of one year's and a couple month's worth of moola.
My Personal Investing professor at the local community college last year really urged us to take it at 70, which is what I listened to since my own parents are making it to 90...although the grandparents died in their 70's and 80's.
Let me add: I have never had anything wrong with me to date healthwise that I know of (no diabetes, no bad heart, nothing that I know of).
If you were me, would you just go ahead now and sign up for Social Security--and lose a little over a year's worth of money from them--or just continue waiting until 70?
I'm concerned now....what to do? What to do? Worry, worry, worry!
I will be 63 this month. I did not take my Social Security yet. If I sign up for it now, I will receive it in something like 3-4 months, but I think I have screwed myself out of one year's and a couple month's worth of moola.
My Personal Investing professor at the local community college last year really urged us to take it at 70, which is what I listened to since my own parents are making it to 90...although the grandparents died in their 70's and 80's.
Let me add: I have never had anything wrong with me to date healthwise that I know of (no diabetes, no bad heart, nothing that I know of).
If you were me, would you just go ahead now and sign up for Social Security--and lose a little over a year's worth of money from them--or just continue waiting until 70?
I'm concerned now....what to do? What to do? Worry, worry, worry!