Social Security Benefits Calculator.

Estimate your Social Security benefits and explore how timing affects your payouts. This calculator helps you decide when to claim benefits to maximize your long-term income.

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Social Security Benefit Estimator

Estimate a simplified monthly and annual Social Security retirement benefit using your birth date, recent earnings, claiming age, and inflation assumption.


Use MM/DD/YYYY to map your age-62 bend point year, or pick a date from the calendar.



Recent annual earnings used as a simplified AIME proxy, capped at the 2026 Social Security taxable maximum of $184,500.


Shown for planning context; not currently factored into this model.



Choose the age you expect to begin claiming benefits.


Defaults to 2.6%. Set to 0 to remove the growth assumption.

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Simplified estimate: AIME uses last-year earnings divided by 12, capped at the 2026 Social Security taxable maximum of $184,500. Bend points come from your age-62 year, claim-age factors are applied, and inflation defaults to 2.6%. Actual SSA benefits depend on full lifetime earnings, official indexing rules, and future program updates.

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