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“Secret” Social Security strategies for advisers

Many financial planners are in the dark about ways to help clients boost their monthly government checks. That needs to change, says one expert.

Most financial advisers are unaware of Social Security strategies that could help increase their clients' payments by thousands of dollars per year.
That's according to Mary Beth Franklin, an editor at Kiplinger's, who spoke today at InvestmentNews Retirement Income Summit in Chicago. She urged adv

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