12/3/2015 – When It Pays to File Early for Social Security

Filing for social security while your benefit is still growing sometimes makes sense. In deciding when to take Social Security, later is almost always better than sooner, and for good reason.

A team including Stanford researchers John Shoven (SCL Faculty Leader) and Gopi Shah Goda (SCL Faculty Advisor) published a paper in 2015 concluding that two-thirds of retirees who claimed early had enough wealth to afford delaying Social Security for two years or more.

Read the full article at Time (Money).