I’m 72 - still working and waited till I was 70 to start taking benefits.
I maxxed out all my quarters.
So it looks like my new payment is $4700 per month.
That’s $56k per year - but I paid in a whole lot more than I should have to get there.
... and the thousands upon thousands of dollars that were forcibly extracted from our earnings over so many decades — and the dollars we continue to pay iinto the system while we’re still working — has long since been spent to buy votes ... the precise purpose its politician designers developed it to be used for.
I worked in a skilled job most of my life,rather poorly paid, retired completely at age 75(couldn’t handle it any more, so now I get less than half of that $4700....an amount on which I think I could live like a king!