Oklahoma seniors can restart the clock on Social Security

 
BY PAULA BURKES    Comment on this article Leave a comment
Published: November 16, 2008

Did you decide to draw Social Security at age 62 and now wish you’d waited on a bigger check? There’s a little-known tactic that allows recipients to pay back all they’ve collected interest-free and restart their benefits at higher rates.

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how to pause your benefits

Download Form 521 ("Request for Withdrawal of Application") from the Social Security Administration Web site ( www.ssa.gov) and visit your local office in person. Your retirement benefits will stop almost immediately — and if your husband or wife receives spousal benefits based on your work record, his or her benefits will stop, too. Until the agency sends you a letter telling you how much you need to repay (including any spousal benefits) and your benefits resume, you’ll have to pay the Part B premium yourself — currently $96.40 a month for most retirees.


Social

Security

benefits

increase 8 percent

for every year worked

past normal retirement

age (65 to 67 for people

born 1938 and later) to 70.

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