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- 0:00This is money in Motion with Class Financial, a fun and informative show designed
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- 1:19by Malia Quavis and Eric Schwartz. Malia, how you doing this morning?
- 1:23Very good? Happy to be here. Are you a fan of the fall?
- 1:26By the way, your fall fan? Jo? Oh, it's so
- 1:27beautiful those leaves falling down. And in one day yesterday I could see the
- 1:34leaves on the trees one color. Yeah, and I'm not kidding you.
- 1:36By the afternoon they were a different color. That is amazing, that is
- 1:41and there. Yeah, there is something great about this time of year.
- 1:42And it's as we talk about enjoying life and enjoying times a year, nothing
- 1:47better than retirement as well and enjoined also this week familiar voice, our good
- 1:52friend Eric Schwartz is back. Eric. How you been I've been I've been
- 1:56good. I'm glad to be here today and hopefully enjoy this fall. Weather
- 1:59is long. Is it'll last for us? Exactly? Yeah, we don't
- 2:01want to get into that sn although some people are waiting. Love love snowing.
- 2:05You know that for snowfall is always fun. So we've got an important
- 2:08question this morning. A great question involves, and I know it's a very
- 2:12popular conversation involving social Security benefits and questions people may wonder about, is should
- 2:19I be taking it at sixty two or hold back. We'll get some details
- 2:22and some of the considerations you should be making if you're making those decisions,
- 2:25and I will say lucky you had a great opportunity you have as we talked
- 2:30this morning with Eric and Malia. As mentioned, the phone lines are open
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- 2:35thirteen ten the website as well Class financial dot Com telephon number six oh eight
- 2:38four four two five six three seven for Class Financials office right here in Madison.
- 2:43And before we start talking social security this week, one of the great
- 2:46things that goes on on this program each and every week is the Closs Quiz
- 2:50Question the Week this week no exception, a chance to win a fantastic prize
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- 3:04exactly how you can win that a little bit later on in the program before
- 3:07we talk. So security us mentioned, let's take a look back at last
- 3:09week's program do the Class Quiz Question week at the question and answer from that
- 3:14show as well. Yeah, so last week, I think the topic was
- 3:16even more exciting than this week's because we were discussing early retirements, so lots
- 3:23of listeners called in for our prize. The question of the week was true
- 3:27or false in general, if you withdraw funds from your retirement accounts before the
- 3:30age of fifty nine and a half, you'll trigger an IRS tax penalty of
- 3:36ten percent. Grant of Madison was first to call in with the correct answer.
- 3:40The answer was true, So make sure you know what you're doing before
- 3:44you just start distributing money out of those retirement accounts, because you don't want
- 3:49a surprise from the IRS. So thanks for listening. Listen carefully for today's
- 3:53question, and as you mentioned Melia. It's a great I think a lot
- 3:55of us daydream about that day and having that option to you not you never
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- 4:09be diving into a pretty big question that a lot of folks ponder, which
- 4:13is should we grab our Social Security benefits at sixty two or is it better
- 4:16to hold back for a while. What do you need to know to make
- 4:20this call? Eric, Yeah, you said it, Sean. This is
- 4:24a really really popular question and something we spend a lot of our days talking
- 4:28about with clients. We've talked about this before too. Social Security is a
- 4:32critical part of retirement income, and in some cases, for some people,
- 4:36it's the only source of income. So it's really important that we're thinking this
- 4:41through before jumping into drawing benefits. So, first of all, there's a
- 4:45difference between when you're first allowed to draw benefits and when you can claim your
- 4:48full retirement benefit. So you can begin collecting Social Security as early as sixty
- 4:55two, but you can also wait until you're seventy or even collect anywhere in
- 5:00between. There I think we hear from people a lot they almost think that
- 5:04there's like certain finish lines where they can draw it. Well, I can
- 5:09only draw it sixty two or sixty five, but you can draw any time
- 5:13in between sixty two and seventy. Now, the earlier you draw benefits,
- 5:16the smaller your monthly check's going to be. And that's really because you're just
- 5:20stretching those benefits over a longer period of time compared to somebody who waits until
- 5:26they're say sixty five or seventy. Now, if you're wondering how much you're
- 5:30going to be getting from Social Security, we've said this before too. SSA
- 5:33dot Gov is an excellent resource for all things Social Security. So you can
- 5:38set up an account there and you can get a current estimate of your future
- 5:42benefit based on your earning's history. That's, like I said, personalized to
- 5:46you. But your benefit is a function of your full retirement age or your
- 5:50FRA. And if you were born between nineteen forty three and nineteen fifty four,
- 5:57your full retirement age is sixty six. Now for those born between nineteen
- 6:01fifty five and nineteen fifty nine, it's sixty six in some number of months,
- 6:08and then for everyone after nineteen sixty it is age sixty seven, so
- 6:12your full retirement age, or your FRA, this is when you can collect
- 6:15one hundred percent of your benefit. The right time to actually start Social Security
- 6:21this really depends on your unique situation. In some cases, we like to
- 6:26see clients hold off at least until they hit their full retirement age, but
- 6:30there can be reasons to draw earlier, and as we'll talk about, many
- 6:32people do. But you can also delay your benefits beyond your full retirement age.
- 6:39You can if you wait beyond whatever that FRA is, whether it's sixty
- 6:44six, sixty seven, or somewhere in between. Waiting beyond that provides you
- 6:48with what are called delayed retirement credits. So these credits increase your benefit by
- 6:54up to eight percent per year until you begin receiving benefits or until you reach
- 6:59seventy. So sometimes it can actually make sense to hold off collecting your Social
- 7:04Security benefits, even if it means tapping into some of your retirement investments,
- 7:09because that guaranteed eight percent benefit increase is pretty tough to beat. I think
- 7:15Millie and I think we're pretty good at our jobs, but that we certainly
- 7:17can't guarantee that really interesting stuff this morning as we're talking with Eric Schwartz and
- 7:23Malia Quavis, our retirement planning professionals from Class Financial, some great information in
- 7:27this week's program. Don't forget if you ever missed part of the show,
- 7:30you can listen back right at cossfinancial dot com. That's k l aa S
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- 7:46five six three seven And to get out on the air this morning six so
- 7:47eight three two one thirteen ten. That's three two one thirteen ten. And
- 7:51Eric, you mentioned age seventy? Why is age seventy so important in this
- 7:56conversation? I'm sorry about that, Eric, Why is age seventy so important
- 8:01in this conversation? Sorry? John, I lost you there? Thuring,
- 8:05So what was so we were? You mentioned the age age seventy and that
- 8:09I know a lot of things we talk about oftentimes. The answer is it
- 8:11depends. Age seventy is a pretty clear one in this conversation, isn't it?
- 8:16Yeah, it definitely is there there's almost no reason to wait beyond age
- 8:20seventy to start collecting your your benefits. I'm sure someone can come up with
- 8:26a really, really out there reason, but in many cases it's pretty straightforward.
- 8:28Do you want to you want to get started at that? They love
- 8:31the government and they want to give the money back. I don't know.
- 8:33There has to be some reason, I guess yeah, someone will have one.
- 8:37Yeah, well, but really important numbers, important dates, and of
- 8:41course great website s SA dot gov. Speaking of fantastic websites, colotsfinancial dot
- 8:46com. That's k l AA s financial dot com. Tel forh number six
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- 8:52this morning. All I gotta do is give us call six oh eight three
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- 9:00Maybe wondering and asking yourself, how exactly do they figure out what Social Security
- 9:03benefit will be? It's different for everyone. Wow's that calculation made. We'll
- 9:07get the details from Milliam. We'll take your call next. As well as
- 9:11Money in Motion with Class Financial continues here on thirteen ten WIBA. This is
- 9:18Money in Motion with Class Financial, A fun and informative show designed to help
- 9:24you get answers to all your retirement questions in one place, and our telephone
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- 9:56it will be complimentary to you again. Then number six so eight four
- 10:01four two five six three seven and you get on the air. It's the
- 10:03old fashioned three two one thirteen ten. That's three two one thirteen ten.
- 10:07So as we're talking this week about social security, I think one of the
- 10:09big questions folks have is how exactly do they figure out what social security benefits,
- 10:15what they're going to be, and will they ever go up or are
- 10:18they set once you claim social security. That's that's where you're at. What
- 10:22do we need to know there, Malia, Yeah, that's a great question.
- 10:24So first of all, you you do have to earn enough credits to
- 10:28even qualify for your own Social Security benefit. Later about if you don't have
- 10:33the necessary credits, how you may actually qualify on behalf of someone else's earnings
- 10:41history. But what you need to know is that as you clock in your
- 10:45hours and pay your taxes, you do start racking up those Social Security credits.
- 10:50And in twenty twenty three, you earn one credit for every sixteen hundred
- 10:54and forty dollars in earnings, and that's capped out at four credits per year.
- 10:58So essentially, if you earn six five hundred and sixty dollars this year,
- 11:03you maxed out on the four credits. But just to give some reflection,
- 11:07you know, we look at a credit today is worth ten hundred and
- 11:11forty dollars. I was reason or started working, so I'm dating myself now.
- 11:16Back in nineteen eighty you only you received one credit for two hundred and
- 11:20ninety dollars of earnings. So it's kind of interesting to see how as time
- 11:26and inflation and everything else has changed, you obviously have to earn a little
- 11:33bit more than we did way back then. So ultimately most most people need
- 11:37to earn forty credits about ten years of work to qualify for the benefits.
- 11:43So what's good to know is if you step away from work for a few
- 11:48years, say you're home with the kids raising them, your record stays in
- 11:52place, and then if you go back to work later you can be adding
- 11:56more credits to it. But if you haven't hit that that forty credit mark
- 12:03and again you jump back into the workforce, all you need to do is
- 12:07go to SSA dot gov to the website and look at how to earn credits.
- 12:11Again. There will be a formula again per dollars per credit, and
- 12:16again it will have increase most likely so assuming you've gotten your forty current force
- 12:22and so that zero obviously slowly you know, brings down the average. However,
- 12:28jumping back in the workforce, even if you made five thousand, six
- 12:31thousand dollars could definitely help beefit up. So you want to be careful on
- 12:37being able to understand how your benefit is affected when you do leave the workforce.
- 12:41And then something that everyone looks forward to is understanding that you will become
- 12:46eligible for cost of living benefits starting at the age of sixty two. That's
- 12:50true even if you don't start getting those benefits until your full retirement age or
- 12:56even age seventy. So this is again you know, people listen to things
- 13:01that affect them personally as a fact, So most people heard last week that
- 13:07the cost of living increase set by the Social Security Administration. They've announced that
- 13:13they are going to be bumping up everyone's benefit next year by three point two
- 13:18percent. We know last year was beginning of this year was a pretty huge
- 13:22event and went up by eight point seven percent for twenty twenty three, again
- 13:26based off of last year's pretty high inflation, so it's not as much as
- 13:33everyone received this year, but it is perhaps good news that inflation has decreased
- 13:39somewhat. So again, just be aware that your benefit is being calculated every
- 13:46year based on what they have looked at for inflationary figures. That's really interesting
- 13:52stuff and as mentioned a couple of times, the website SSA dot gov has
- 13:56come up definitely an important resource there. As we talked this MOK was the
- 14:01Malia Quavis and Eric Schwartz, our retirement planning professionals from Class Financial, speaking
- 14:05of great resources. If you've got questions, we'd love to get you on
- 14:07the air with Malia and Eric. All I got to do is give us
- 14:09call here at station six oh eight three two one thirteen ten. That's three
- 14:13two one thirteen ten Class Financial great website cluss financial dot com and they're telephone
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- 14:26you again that number six oh eight four four two five six three seven here
- 14:30that term break even, break even point. Of course, I think we're
- 14:33all probably pretty uh interested in what it is exactly and and how we know
- 14:39when that breaking point is, Like, what's that perfect age Eric to start
- 14:43collecting social security? Well, as you can imagine, the right age to
- 14:48claim social security is different for everybody because we have to think about not only
- 14:52your Social Security benefits, but you know, what you have saved for retirement
- 14:56outside of that, any other sources of income you might have part time work,
- 15:01pension, and what your your spe your spouse might be getting. So
- 15:05it's that part makes it difficult enough. But I think what makes it even
- 15:11more difficult is we're trying to predict how long people are going to live because
- 15:13Social Security pays us as But let let's talk about what it actually looks like
- 15:20if you claim your benefits early. So we're going to we're going to look
- 15:22at an example here. Let's say that your full retirement age is sixty six
- 15:28and two months and you decide, you know what, I'm going to start
- 15:31taking my Social Security benefits at sixty two. So at that point you are
- 15:35going to receive seventy four point two percent of your full retirement age benefit.
- 15:41So remember, the full retirement age benefit is when you receive one hundred percent
- 15:46of your Social Security benefit. So drawing early at sixty two, you're going
- 15:50to get seventy four point two percent of the benefit. Now, if you
- 15:54decide to wait till you're sixty five, maybe you want to start your Social
- 15:58Security when you start your mind of care, at that point, you're going
- 16:02to receive ninety two point two percent of the full retirement age benefit. Now,
- 16:07even though we know that waiting can make your benefit grow a lot,
- 16:11age, sixty two is still the most popular age to claim Social Security.
- 16:15That's according to most the most recent government data we have now One reason people
- 16:22might draw at age sixty two is maybe they're facing an illness or they have
- 16:26ongoing health problems and they expect to have a shorter lifespan. Maybe people just
- 16:33can't get to sixty two and they can't stand the thought of not collecting their
- 16:37benefits. But I want to get to your question about the social Security break
- 16:44even age. So we get this question a lot when trying to figure out
- 16:48when is the right time to actually take benefits. So just remember when you
- 16:52choose to take benefits early, that is a permanent decision. Your benefit is
- 16:56going to stay reduced throughout your own entire life. It's not just until you
- 17:00reach your full retirement age. Now, your social Security break even age.
- 17:07That's the point in your life when the total of those lower benefits equals the
- 17:11total you would have received if you had waited until full retirement age or beyond.
- 17:17Now. I just heard myself say that, and I know how how
- 17:19confusing that sounds. But if we look at an example here, I think
- 17:22it helps illustrate it illustrated better. So let's say that you were born in
- 17:27nineteen sixty, Okay, so that means your full retirement age is sixty seven.
- 17:33If you decide to start collecting your Social Security at sixty two, your
- 17:37benefit is thirty percent less than your full retirement age benefit. So let's use
- 17:41easy numbers here. Let's say your Social Security is one thousand dollars a month.
- 17:45If you draw it sixty two, then you're going to be receiving seven
- 17:48hundred dollars each month for the rest of your life. Now, let's say
- 17:52your coworker who was born on the same day and they have similar earnings history,
- 17:56but they're a little bit more patient. They decide to wait and claim
- 18:00benefits until they're full retirement age, which is sixty seven, so five years
- 18:04later. So they're going to get that full thousand dollars a month. But
- 18:08for the first five years, you're getting seven hundred dollars a month. While
- 18:11they're waiting, they're not getting anything in that time. So during that time,
- 18:15you collected forty two thousand dollars and your coworker collected nothing. Right,
- 18:22But once they start receiving benefits, they're going to be getting three hundred dollars
- 18:27more per month than you. Okay, so an extra thirty six hundred dollars
- 18:32a year. So the point at which they catch up with you with their
- 18:38extra monthly payment. That is the Social Security break even age. So in
- 18:42this specific case, the break even point would be seventy eight and eight months.
- 18:48Okay, so it takes you about almost twelve years after your full retirement
- 18:55age. And then at that point your coworker who waited, they are now
- 19:00now they have now gotten more out of Social Security, and they will get
- 19:03more out of Social Security assuming you live the same amount of time. So
- 19:07if we think about this for most people, if you can calculate that that
- 19:11break even point, and you know it's somewhere in that eleven or twelve years,
- 19:15which is fairly common, and you're confident you'll you'll live beyond that,
- 19:19I mean, I guess we can only be so confident. But if you
- 19:22have longevity in your family and you you're generally healthy, then it might it
- 19:26might make sense to wait to collect your Social Security until you reach that full
- 19:30retirement age, or even wait longer. On the other hand, if you're
- 19:36if you have health issues, or you're you know, you don't have a
- 19:38family, start taking those benefits earlier and get as much out of Social Security
- 19:44as you can. Really fascinating stuff, and just a lot of great information
- 19:47this morning. Don't forget. If you ever missed part of today's program or
- 19:51any of the previous shows, you can always listen back at Class Financial dot
- 19:53com. That's class k l a as Financial dot Com. The're telfull number
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- 20:00initial gets to know you appointment at Class Financial. It will be complimentary to
- 20:04you again their number six oh eight four four two five six three seven.
- 20:08Let's say you're in a position where you haven't earned enough credits to qualify for
- 20:12Social Security. All hope may not be lost. We'll get the details next.
- 20:17Also do the Money in Motion listener question corner, as well as the
- 20:19Class Quiz question a week. So much coming up in this next segment as
- 20:22Money in Motion with Coss Financial continues right here on thirteen ten. Wuib I.
- 20:30This is Money in Motion with Class Financial, a fun and informative show
- 20:36designed to help you get answers to all your retirement questions in one place,
- 20:40talking with our retirement planning professionals Maleia Quavis and Eric Schwartz. Of course,
- 20:44they come to us from Class Financial online. Classfinancial dot Com that's Klaasfinancial dot
- 20:49Com and their telephone number six oh eight four four two five six three seven.
- 20:55A couple months ago, a lot lot of verbiage about spouse's x spouse,
- 21:00et cetera. You can go back and listen to that for more details,
- 21:03but quite simply, to be eligible for your spouse's benefits, you typically
- 21:08need to be at least sixty two years old, or any age if you're
- 21:14caring for a child who is under the age of sixteen, or perhaps one
- 21:18with disabilities. In that case, though, you can get benefits based on
- 21:22your spouse's record. But this is what you need to know. If you
- 21:26begin receiving spousal benefits at your full retirement age, which is going to be
- 21:30older than sixty two, typically you're going to receive fifty percent of what your
- 21:36spouse would get if they started benefits at their full retirement age. So again
- 21:41some takeaways today, remember this that if you do start benefits early, they're
- 21:47going to be smaller, just like Eric's spoke of a few minutes ago.
- 21:52So you know, it's kind of like locking them in, and they are
- 21:55smaller if you're starting them before full retirement age. Now there's a whole different
- 22:00direction for widows or widowers, So you can actually kick things off by collecting
- 22:06Social Security benefits first based on your own earnings records and then switch to a
- 22:11survivor's benefit later. Or and this is quite interesting, or you can start
- 22:18with survivor's benefits and switch to benefits tied to your own earning's record, even
- 22:25if you're filing before hitting full retirement age, so you know, if you're
- 22:30dealing with an ex spouse's passing, you might be able to get benefits like
- 22:33a widow or widower. We would suggest to dive deeper check out the survivor's
- 22:38benefits or spouse benefits pages on the Social Security website. Certainly call make an
- 22:45appointment, either by phone or in person with Social Security, because ultimately you
- 22:49want to get the best benefit at the right time. We would hate to
- 22:53see you lock in a benefit that's not the best benefit you could have.
- 22:59And if you're divorce worst and you're looking at survivor benefits, here's a scoop.
- 23:03And there's always these little caveats. If you're at least sixty and your
- 23:08marriage lasted a minimum of ten years, and I know Sean's right, and
- 23:14all this stuff, Okay, and you didn't remarry remarry before the age of
- 23:18sixty, you may be eligible to claim on your late spouse's benefit. And
- 23:25then we talked about divorced individuals. So you can sometimes get half of the
- 23:30ex Social Security benefits your exss social Security benefits. But there's a catch hero
- 23:37as well. You have to have been married for more than a decade,
- 23:41be single, age sixty two or older, and your own work records should
- 23:47probably bring in less than what you would get from your ex spouse's benefits.
- 23:52You know, at the end of the day, we just start looking for
- 23:53the best benefit that you could you could actually receive. We don't want to
- 23:57go through headaches of trying to get some thing that's worth less than you have,
- 24:00certainly, but these are these get We had a question last time we
- 24:04discussed this, you know, because some people are married more than once,
- 24:07twice or three times, so those get really complicated. We would definitely direct
- 24:12you to speak to Social Security to find out what's right for you. Just
- 24:15fascinating stuff this morning with Malia Quavis and Eric Schwartz, our retirement planning professionals
- 24:19from Klass Financial teleph number six so eight four four two five six three seven
- 24:23and the website class financial dot com. That's k l aas Financial dot com
- 24:29talked about all the great features on the website. I did mention earlier that
- 24:32there's an opportunity to submit a question to be answered right here on the program,
- 24:34the Money in Motion Listener question corner. Again, you can submit those
- 24:37right online at cossfinancial dot com. As a matter of fact, Susan writes
- 24:41in she says, I'm considering retiring next year, as as is my husband.
- 24:47Is it smart for both of us to retire the same year? That
- 24:52is a that's a great question. That's that's also a big question. So
- 24:55certainly encourage Susan to reach out to her financial advisor and discuss this in more
- 25:00detail. But when I hear that question, it does prompt for me a
- 25:06few things to be thinking about. So if Susan is younger than sixty five,
- 25:11it's going to be really important for her and her husband to determine how
- 25:15they want to handle healthcare. Because remember, you're not eligible for Medicare until
- 25:19you reach sixty five, so you're maybe that's taking Cobra through your future former
- 25:26employer, purchasing insurance on the health insurance exchange, or even looking for a
- 25:30part time job that maybe offers health insurance. The other thing that one of
- 25:37the other things I would think about is does the projected income that you can
- 25:41take from your investments and social Security does that actually match up to what would
- 25:45be a comfortable lifestyle for you in retirement. So I think people choose a
- 25:52date in mind for retirement and they view it kind of as well, I
- 25:55just have to get to that age rather than viewing it through the lens of
- 25:59well, by that age, have I accumulated the resources and investments that I
- 26:03need to be able to retire the way I want to? And this,
- 26:07you know, a big piece of this is you know how much debt do
- 26:11you have left on the table, because that's going to steal some of that
- 26:15income to cover obviously liabilities that you have and limit the lifestyle that you have
- 26:21at least initially in retirement. But the last piece of this that I would
- 26:25really want Susan to think about is what do you or your spouse actually want
- 26:30to do in retirement. Do you want to spend more time with family,
- 26:33you want to travel, you want to volunteer, maybe all of those things.
- 26:37But we see people retire all the time, obviously, and one of
- 26:41the big things that we've come to realize is it's important to have something to
- 26:45retire too. So when people are working, they have a routine, they
- 26:52have responsibilities, they have something to get them out of bed in the morning.
- 26:56And it's not always, you know, the most exciting things, right,
- 27:00but it is something that kind of structures our lives. So as we
- 27:06watch people do this, we've found that people that retire the most successfully,
- 27:10perhaps the most happily, actually have a plan for how they want to spend
- 27:15that free time in retirement. So those are just some of the things I
- 27:18would think about. But again this is a bigger discussion that I would really
- 27:22encourage Susan to reach out to a trusted financial advisor with great question, Susan,
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