Most women claim Social Security early
Reduced lifetime income will force many to spend bulk of benefits on health care.
Women tend to live longer than men, which means they spend more time in retirement and often do so with less savings. As a result, women retirees, on average, could spend 70% of their Social Security benefits on health care costs.
Women count on Social Security to pay for more than half of all their
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