Your Retirement Benefit—How It Is Figured 211948C 10070 10
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Your Retirement Benefit: How It Is Figured A s you make plans for your retirement, you may ask, “How much will I get from Social Security?” There are several ways you can find out. Social Security sends a yearly Social Security Statement to everyone age 25 or older who has paid Social Security taxes and has not yet received benefits. You should receive a Statement about three months before your birthday each year. You also can request a Statement online at www.socialsecurity.gov/onlineservices. Or, you can request a Statement by calling Social Security and asking for a form SSA-7004, Request for Social Security Statement. You can use the Retirement Estimator at www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator to find out how much you might receive. Many people wonder how their benefit is figured. Social Security benefits are based on your lifetime earnings. Your actual earnings are adjusted or “indexed” to account for changes in average wages since the year the earnings were received. Then Social Security calculates your average indexed monthly earnings during the 35 years in which you earned the most. We apply a formula to these earnings and arrive at your basic benefit, or “primary insurance amount” (PIA). This is how much you would receive at your full retirement age—65 or older, depending on your date of birth. On the back of this page is a worksheet you can use to estimate your retirement benefit if you were born in 1948. It is only an estimate; for specific information, talk with a Social Security representative. Factors that can change the amount of your retirement benefit • You choose to get benefits before your full retirement age. You can begin to receive Social Security benefits as early as age 62, but at a reduced rate. Your basic benefit will be reduced by a certain percentage if you retire before reaching full retirement age. • You are eligible for cost-of-living benefit increases starting with the year you become age 62. This is true even if you do not get benefits until your full retirement age or even age 70. Cost-of-living increases are added to your benefit beginning with the year you reach 62 up to the year you start getting benefits. 2010 YEARS • You delay your retirement past your full retirement age. Social Security benefits are increased by a certain percentage (depending on your date of birth) if you delay receiving benefits until past your full retirement age. If you do so, your benefit amount will be increased until you start taking benefits or you reach age 70. • You are a government worker with a pension. If you also get or are eligible for a pension from work where you did not pay Social Security taxes (usually a government job), a different formula is applied to your average indexed monthly earnings. To find out how the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) affects your benefits, go to www.socialsecurity.gov/ gpo-wep and use the WEP online calculator. You also can review the WEP fact sheet to find out how your benefit is figured. Or, you can contact Social Security and ask for Windfall Elimination Provision (Publication No. 05-10045). You may find a more detailed explanation about how your retirement benefit is calculated in the Annual Statistical Supplement, 2008, Appendix D. The publication is available on the Internet at www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ supplement or you can order a paper copy by writing to the Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954. Contacting Social Security For more information and to find copies of our publications, visit our website at www.socialsecurity.gov or call toll-free, 1-800-772-1213 (for the deaf or hard of hearing, call our TTY number, 1-800-325-0778). We treat all calls confidentially. We can answer specific questions from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. We can provide information by automated phone service 24 hours a day. We also want to make sure you receive accurate and courteous service. That is why we have a second Social Security representative monitor some telephone calls. (over) Your Retirement Benefit: How It Is Figured Estimating your Social Security retirement benefit For workers born in 1948 (people born in 1948 become age 62 in 2010 and are eligible for a benefit) This worksheet shows how to estimate the Social Security monthly retirement benefit you would be eligible for at age 62 if you were born in 1948. It also allows you to estimate what you would receive at age 66, your full retirement age, excluding any cost-of-living adjustments for which you may be eligible. If you continue working past age 62, your additional earnings could increase your benefit. People born after 1948 can use this worksheet, but their actual benefit may be higher due to additional earnings and benefit increases. If you were born before 1948, please go online at www.socialsecurity.gov or contact us for your worksheet. Step 1: Enter your actual earnings in Column B, but not more than the amount shown in Column A. If you have no earnings, enter “0.” Step 2: Multiply the amounts in Column B by the index factors in Column C, and enter the results in Column D. This gives you your indexed earnings, or the approximate value of your earnings in current dollars. Step 3: Choose from Column D the 35 years with the highest amounts. Add these amounts. $_________ Step 4: Divide the result from Step 3 by 420 (the number of months in 35 years). Round down to the next lowest dollar. This will give you your average indexed monthly earnings. $_________ Year 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 A. B. Maximum Actual earnings earnings $3,600 3,600 3,600 3,600 4,200 4,200 4,200 4,200 4,800 4,800 4,800 4,800 4,800 4,800 4,800 6,600 6,600 7,800 7,800 7,800 7,800 9,000 10,800 13,200 14,100 15,300 16,500 17,700 22,900 25,900 C. Index factor 14.77 13.90 13.17 13.10 12.52 11.70 11.35 11.25 10.72 10.32 10.11 9.63 9.40 9.03 8.87 8.37 7.93 7.42 7.01 6.68 6.36 5.79 5.45 5.15 4.79 4.48 4.23 3.92 3.60 3.30 D. Indexed earnings Step 5: a. Multiply the first $761 in Step 4 by 90%. $_________ b. Multiply the amount in Step 4 over $761 and less than or equal to $4,586 by 32%. $_________ c. Multiply the amount in Step 4 over $4,586 by 15%. $_________ Step 6: Add a, b and c from Step 5. Round down to the next lowest dollar. This is your estimated monthly retirement benefit at age 66, your full retirement age. $_________ Step 7: Multiply the amount in Step 6 by 75%. This is your estimated monthly retirement benefit if you retire at age 62. $_____ ____ Year 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 A. B. Maximum Actual earnings earnings 29,700 32,400 35,700 37,800 39,600 42,000 43,800 45,000 48,000 51,300 53,400 55,500 57,600 60,600 61,200 62,700 65,400 68,400 72,600 76,200 80,400 84,900 87,000 87,900 90,000 94,200 97,500 102,000 106,800 YEARS C. Index factor 3.00 2.84 2.71 2.56 2.46 2.39 2.24 2.14 2.06 1.97 1.90 1.80 1.79 1.74 1.67 1.60 1.51 1.43 1.36 1.29 1.26 1.24 1.21 1.16 1.12 1.07 1.02 1.00 1.00 D. Indexed earnings Social Security Administration SSA Publication No. 05-10070 ICN 467100 Unit of Issue - HD (one hundred) January 2010 (Destroy Prior Edition)
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