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You can call the Social Security people back, or visit your local Social Security office, and hope you don’t get such a clunker of an agent! I will never know where that phone representative you talked to came up with the “only one benefit switch” rule. She is just plain wrong. You can and should switch to your own retirement benefits. You said your widow’s benefit rate was just “slightly higher” than your retirement benefit -- and that was four years ago. But now, your retirement rate should be significantly more than your widow’s rate. Your retirement benefit has increased for two reasons. One: The extra earnings you’ve had since age 66 very likely have increased your own benefit by -- I’m guessing -- about $50 to $100 per month. On top of that, you get what are called “delayed retirement credits.” That credit equals twothirds of one percent for each month after age 66 that you didn’t get a retirement check. There are 48 months between 66 and 70, and you got a retirement check for just one of those months. So you are due an increase for the other 47 months, or about 31 percent. You actually will have two choices. You can take that extra $50 to $100 per month and get the 31 percent bonus on top of that -- effective with age 70. Or you can take six months’ worth of retroactive benefits. In that scenario, you’d get the $50 to $100 boost along with roughly a 28 percent bonus, minus the widow’s benefits you’ve already received. So again, go back to the Social Security people, find the right agent who knows his or her stuff, and go over your options.

because he got reduced retirement benefits, my widow’s benefits would also be reduced. But I don’t think he got retirement benefits. I was tr ying to get him disability checks. What is going on?

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