Get what's yours : the secrets to maxing out your social security / Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Philip Moeller, and Paul Solman

Includes index.

Why we bothered -- Life's biggest danger isn't dying, it's living -- Social security from A to Zzzzzzzz -- The new social security law -- Three general rules to maximize your lifetime benefits -- Be careful taking social security's advice and help -- The benefits of not retiring -- Playing social security's marital status game -- Married or divorced with benefits -- Widowed? why social security is a major women's issue -- Never married or divorced too soon -- Hidden benefits for the disabled -- Social security and medicare -- Government pensions and windfall penalties -- 60 good-news secrets to higher lifetime benefits -- 40 bad-news gotchas that can reduce your benefits forever -- Whither social security? -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Appendix: Actually filing to get what's yours -- Notes -- Index.

"In 2016, Social Security rules changed radically. Do you know how - and how these changes might apply to you? Americans have left literally billions of Social Security dollars on the table - benefits we have earned, are eligible to take, but simply aren't aware of. Fully revised and carefully updated in light of the new law, Get What's Yours is the indispensable guide to collecting the maximum Social Security benefits possible."