You can claim Social Security between ages 62 and 70, and you get to decide what age within that range makes sense for you.

A history-making Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2026 will lift nominal-dollar retired-worker checks well ...

Understanding the full retirement age (FRA) for Social Security is extremely important so you can make informed choices about your benefits. This can be more complicated than you’d think because FRA ...

More specifically, it is the full retirement age that is changing in 2026. Technically, you can start claiming retirement benefits from the Social Security Administration once you turn 62, but it ...

Although Social Security's official full retirement age -- or FRA – is somewhere between 66 and 67 (depending on when you ...

Last year, more than 20% of newly awarded retired workers claimed Social Security as soon as possible at age 62, so they received the smallest possible benefit. Meanwhile, less than 10% of newly ...