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Podcast: Retire Today
Episode: Maximizing Your Spousal and Survivor Social Security Benefits
Description: Discovering the link between Social Security spousal benefits within a couple and breaking down the consequences of deciding when each person starts taking it.
Managing your Social Security as a couple provides opportunities to maximize your available retirement income in a way that an individual cannot. In this episode of “Retirement Revealed” I’m going through an example based on a listener question to show how the spousal and survivor benefits work for Social Security, including how the smaller benefit is impacted by each decision the couple makes.
Here’s the question this episode is based of...