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Adjusting Social Security claiming strategies for new rules

Here are a few scenarios that can help you guide your clients' decisions.

Ever since Congress voted to eliminate some key Social Security claiming strategies last fall, financial advisers have been writing to me with questions about how to adapt their clients' retirement plans.
Here are a few scenarios that should be familiar to advisers. I hope the answers can help you

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