Have a client who — unbeknownst to you — filed for Social Security benefits early? Mary Beth Franklin unwraps the two ways for beneficiaries to increase their benefits after initially claiming them.
Normally, when you continue to work while collecting benefits before your full retirement age, you lose. But what happens when you reach 66?
<i>InvestmentNews</i> contributing editor Mary Beth Franklin just took the two-day, 10-hour certified financial planner test. She survived and tells all about it. Now her wait begins to find out if she passed.
Clients have until Dec. 7 to make choices for 2014
Social Security employees are highly trained professionals who put the public's interest first.
Mary Beth Franklin dishes on how the Social Security Administration sends millions in benefits to deceased people...and how, in some cases, people who are very much alive are declared dead.
What to do when you get the wrong answer from the Social Security Administration
What to do when you get the wrong answer from SSA
