Short reads adapted from the workbooks. Each one takes a single decision, prices it for a made-up person, and cites the government page the rule comes from.
Claim at 62 and you collect 60 checks before the person who waited sees a dime. The question is not whether the bigger check is bigger. It is when it catches up.
Read the articleSign up for Medicare Part A after 65 and your enrollment is backdated up to six months. The IRS applies its zero-contribution rule to those months too. The fix is one phone call, made in time.
Read the articleMedigap letters fix the coverage by law, so the two most popular plans differ in exactly three places. Price those three against your own doctor visits and the choice is arithmetic.
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