I’ve already talked about delaying starting your Social Security retirement benefits as a way to get more money per month. This post is about strategies that may help you wait. First, if you’re planning on going on Social Security retirement benefits before full retirement age — currently 66 — are you doing this because you […]

Can you increase your Social Security? If you’re talking about retirement benefits, the answer is probably yes but you’ll have to be patient. I think that most people know that if you go on Social Security retirement benefits before full retirement age — which is currently 66 — you receive less. The reduction is 25% […]

This is what Social Security calls its “waterfall” chart.  

There’s a good chance you won’t get all the Social Security you’re entitled to — if you’re not careful. People make a lot of mistakes because they don’t know the rules. Here’s some things that you may miss because you don’t know any better: Filing just for Social Security retirement benefits when you should also […]

    This is a picture I took in a place in North Carolina where the Charles T. Hall Law Firm goes to represent Social Security disability claimants. We’re in Raleigh but we go to lots of smaller places.

Social Security had been trying to keep secret the identity of an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) assigned to hold a hearing until the day of the hearing. This didn’t matter all that much to Social Security disability claimants, the people we represent, since they didn’t know the ALJs anyway but it was certainly a pain […]