4/8/2014 – More people are delaying Social Security benefits

It looks like people are now paying attention to the plethora of advice retirement analysts and writers — including me — have been offering about delaying Social Security benefits as a means of improving retirement security. The Social Security Administration’s Annual Statistical Supplement for 2013 provides evidence of a slow but steady increase since 2004-2005 in the age at which Americans start taking Social Security benefits, reversing a prior trend of claiming payments at earlier ages.

Read the full article by Center on Longevity Research Scholar Steve Vernon at CBS MoneyWatch.