People line up outside of the Social Security Administration office February 2, 2005 in San Francisco, California.

How To Navigate Social Security, Without Losing Money

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 23, 2015

There are 2,728 rules of the Social Security system, and if you make a wrong decision about which Social Security benefits to apply for, it may cost you tens of thousands of dollars in lost income. In Get What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security, Laurence Kotlikoff and Philip Moeller, and co-author Paul Solman, cover the most frequent benefit scenarios faced by married retired couples, by divorced retirees, and by widows and widowers, among others. 

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