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Chart created by author. The break-even point is when your cumulative benefits received from retiring at a later age equals the cumulative benefits received from retiring at an earlier age.

Break-even point analysis is used to determine the point at which a venture or investment is neither at a profit nor a loss position. Learn more here.

Understanding Social Security benefits. Calculating your Social Security break-even age. The impact of delaying Social ...

If you want to delay claiming your Social Security benefits until age 70, you won't come out ahead until you live beyond your break-even age.

As the chart above shows, it would take quite a while for the additional money you'd receive monthly for delaying Social Security benefits to bring your total up to what you'd get by retiring ...