The ongoing COVID-19 crisis is changing lots of things in obvious ways, such as how we get our food and what we wear when we’re outside, but it has longer-term, less obvious effects, too. As my colleague Maurie Backman has pointed out, it can play a part in the critical decision we all have to make about when to start collecting our Social Security benefits.
For each of us, the calculation is a bit different, with or without pandemic considerations. Here’s a look at why you might want to start collecting those benefits early.