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How to become a Social Security expert

Training programs available for various levels of experience and interest.

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New resolution: Create and review your Social Security statement online

If your earnings information is wrong, you may not receive all the benefits to which you are entitled.

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Don’t delay on file and suspend Social Security claims

As the Social Security Administration's appointment backlog builds, consider filing online.

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Missed Social Security claiming opportunity costs client more than $29,000

Which is harder to swallow: realizing that your advice cost a client more than $29,000 in lost Social Security benefits or owning up to the mistake?

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  • News
  • September 22, 2014

Social Security resumes mailing statements

Agency encourages workers to create personal online accounts.

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  • News
  • September 12, 2014

Social Security returns to snail mail

Agency encourages Americans to create personal online accounts, but has given up counting on it

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  • News
  • July 22, 2014

Big demand from advisers for Social Security claiming tools, training

But few are willing to pay for it.

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Social Security planning comes to the workplace

Social Security planning has taken a giant step into the workplace, and retirement planning may never be the same. Mary Beth Franklin calls the addition of claiming strategies to retirement income tools a possible game changer.

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Another reason to file and suspend Social Security benefits

There is flexibility in lump-sum payouts – but you must be alive to collect them