Will They Take The Money And Work? People's Willingness to Delay Claiming Social Security Benefits for a Lump Sum

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Maurer, Raimond
Mitchell, Olivia S
Rogalla, Ralph
Schimetschek, Tatjana
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This article investigates whether exchanging Social Security delayed retirement credits, currently paid as increases in lifelong benefits, for a lump sum would induce later claiming and additional work. We show that people would voluntarily claim about 6 months later if the lump sum were paid for claiming after the early retirement age, and about 8 months later if the lump sum were paid only for those claiming after their full retirement age. Overall, people will work one-third to one-half of the additional months. Those who would currently claim at the youngest ages are most responsive to the lump sum offer.

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2016-11-28
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The Journal of Risk and Insurance
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