For Americans of a certain age, there may be no bigger question than this.
At what age should I take Social Security? At age 62? Sixty-five? Seventy?
The question matters, because your monthly Social Security checks get larger with every year you wait to claim them, from age 62 through 70.
In purely monetary terms, as it turns out, the question has a simple answer, and you can find it right on the Social Security website.
How much money you will ultimately collect in Social Security depends, in the end, on how long you live. And to answer that question, a good place to start is the Social Security Life Expectancy Calculator.
