There are many factors to consider, and they may have you concluding that it's best to wait a bit longer.

You can take Social Security at 62, but it could cost you. Here are four popular reasons for claiming early, and their ...

At 62 with $1.4 million saved and a beach house on the table, you and your wife are arguing about two fundamentally different ...

Most Americans consider $1.26 million to be the “magic number.” ...

Based on the factors used to calculate retirement benefits, the average monthly retired-worker payout from 62 through 99-plus ...

Do I have enough money to retire? It's a question increasingly being asked by an aging population, most of whom no longer ...

Yahoo Finance Senior Columnist Kerry Hannon joins Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre to discuss the growing trend of early ...

There's no denying that Social Security benefits increase after age 62 and it's good to understand how to maximize them. What's less discussed is why people may choose to retire at age 62 and how it's ...

Millions of Americans become eligible to claim Social Security retirement benefits at 62, but financial experts and federal officials warned that starting checks that early can permanently reduce ...

A surgeon earning $500,000 a year retires at 62 with $500,000 in a 401(k) and assumes the hard part is over. At the standard ...

For a long time, my plan was to claim Social Security at the age of 62. I wanted to start my benefits then because that was the age at which I first became eligible for them. I figured that I would ...