Retirement Starts Today Radio

Are you signed up for the My Social Security account from the Social Security Administration? In this episode, we’ll review a Kitces.com article written by Jeffrey Levine about this important resource. We’ll review the history of My Social Security, how to sign up for it, how its benefit calculations account for inflation, and how Americans can interpret its information in order to understand their social security benefits. Don’t miss this excellent opportunity to review a very important topic. Press play to listen. Outline of This Episode [2:28] How to access your My Social Security account [5:22] What can you do with your My Social Security account? [10:04] A question about my podcast host [11:28] Rusty needs to create about $50,000 of income each year - how should he do it? Background information on My Social Security From 1990 to 2011, the Social Security Administration mailed paper copies of Social Security statements to most American workers. These statements summarized their personalized retirement a