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The calculator determines your current age and retirement FRA.
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Estimate your potential monthly retirement benefit and compare how claiming from age 62 through 70 may affect your income.
Plan with context
Social Security retirement benefits replace part of your pre-retirement income after years of covered work. Your earnings record helps determine your full benefit, while the age you start receiving it affects the amount paid each month.
Claiming before Full Retirement Age generally creates a permanent reduction. Waiting beyond FRA can earn delayed retirement credits through age 70. This calculator turns those rules into side-by-side estimates, but it cannot access your SSA record, confirm eligibility, or model every family and work situation.
Use the result as an educational planning input, then compare it with the estimate in your official my Social Security account.
Simple workflow
The calculator determines your current age and retirement FRA.
Use current earnings for a quick estimate or annual history for more detail.
Select any year and month from age 62 through 70.
Review age 62, 65, FRA, 70, and the full monthly table.
Planning value
A good estimate makes tradeoffs easier to see without pretending to predict the future.
Calculation fundamentals
SSA generally uses your highest 35 years of indexed covered earnings. Years without earnings can count as zeros, which may lower the average.
Covered earnings—up to each year's taxable maximum—form the starting record.
Indexed earnings from the strongest 35 years are averaged into AIME.
A progressive formula applies 90%, 32%, and 15% rates across bend-point bands.
FRA varies by date of birth; it is not automatically age 67 for everyone.
Starting before FRA reduces the payment; delaying can increase it through 70.
Continued earnings, spouse eligibility, pensions and other rules may affect actual payments.
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Primary methodology reference: U.S. Social Security Administration.
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