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Your Social Security Questions Answered | Mike Piper

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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

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4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode: full retirement age, earnings, spousal benefits, survivor benefits, filing for benefits, and the earnings test.

This week, Mike Piper joins the show to talk all things social security and answer listener questions that arose from our last social security related conversation back in episode 474! Whether it is discussing the full retirement age, discussing when to file for benefits, and different situations and their correlating differing types of benefits, Brad and Mike cover your burning questions so when the time comes you can catapult yourself into retirement confident and comfortably. While the topic of social security can often be confusing, being informed and prepared based on you and your families situation can make approaching it a lot less formidable, so listen along now to be ready down the line when it is your time to file!

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Choose a Phi.

0:01.6

Today on the show we have a follow-up for a Social Security deep dive.

0:06.0

And I'm really happy to say we have a true expert, Mike Piper, who is the founder of

0:12.0

Open Social Security.com and the author of Social

0:15.0

Security made simple and I love his his little tagline here on this book

0:19.1

Social Security retirement benefits and related planning topics explained in a hundred pages or less.

0:25.1

And searching for simplicity in something complex is just a hallmark of what we do here at Choose

0:30.5

FI and that just stuck out to me. I've heard Mike on prior

0:34.7

podcast and he really really is a deep expert in this. I think this is going to

0:40.0

really help answer a lot of the questions on episode 474 when we did our first

0:45.6

episode I asked you the community to send in your questions on Social Security

0:49.7

and we received dozens of them and we also have some updates some

0:54.2

clarification some corrections from that original episode and I think that's what

0:58.2

we're ultimately doing here as we're trying to get closer to understanding and understanding that things change and we need as a

1:08.0

five community to come together and just try to get an understanding of something complex.

1:12.1

And I think Social Security is deeply complex but we have

1:15.5

Mike here to cut through the noise. I think you're really going to enjoy this and with that

1:19.3

welcome to choose that five. I'm fine. All right, Mike, I am so glad you're here.

1:28.0

Thank you for joining me.

1:31.0

Thank you for the invitation.

1:32.0

Yeah, this should be great.

1:34.0

So I think as I said on the front side of this, we have just a ton of questions that get through.

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