[citizen]

My cousin took the SS benefit as soon as possible. Now, 3 years into the full retirement period, he complains that he did, as if he was forced into it!

I advised him to wait & continue working, he was eager for the early money and not to work. His common-law wife brings in a good check while he sits around doing not much of anything.

[right way right]

That sounds like me.
I just started to collect at 62.
My health and our financial health has everything to do with it.
Mom lived to 71 and dad lived to 66
I don't do much but, keeping up the homestead which we inherited
keeps me as busy as I can handle any more.

Special thanks to my father in-law who worked as many hours as he could for 50 years then had the place built when he was too old to handle it.
Then he died at 84 after going blind for the last 15 of his life.

I have the same malady's as my mom and pop.
I am just so blessed to have such a wife as mine.
God has provided and will keep providing...just enough so I don't forget about Him.

[Tell It Right]

His common-law wife brings in a good check while he sits around doing not much of anything.

If that bothers him, how come he doesn't go work? Does he believe that collecting SS forbids him from working?