Not accounting for dependent benefits
You might still have dependent children when you decide to claim your Social Security retirement benefits, and they might be eligible to receive those benefits, too.
An eligible child is able to receive as much as 50% of your full retirement benefit amount every month, as the Social Security Administration has claimed.
Your family can receive that amount of money, besides your own amount.
Payments to your dependents have nothing to do with your benefit, even if there is a limit to how much the entire family might receive in monthly benefits. In this case, understanding the benefits that your children might get will help you maximize the entire family benefit amount.
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