Social Security Optimizer
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Model breakeven ages and lifetime benefits at each claiming age — including spousal strategy.
How this is calculated
We total the lifetime benefits you’d collect claiming at 62, full retirement age, and 70, then find the break-even ages and the highest-total choice.
The steps
- For each claim age, sum the monthly benefit × 12, grown by a cost-of-living adjustment, from that age to your life expectancy.
- Find the break-even age where waiting overtakes claiming earlier.
- For couples, compare own vs. spousal (½ of the higher earner’s) and the survivor benefit.
Assumptions
- A cost-of-living adjustment (~2.5%); the benefit amounts you enter.
Good to know
- Doesn’t model taxation of benefits or earnings-test reductions while working.
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