Social Security

Factors that may, or may not, affect your retirement benefits include:

• Getting Benefits While Working
• Different kinds of earnings:
  • Farm Work
  • Federal Government Employment
  • Household Employment
  • Military Service
  • Nonprofit Or Religious Organizations
  • Railroad Earnings
  • Self-Employment
  • State And Local Government Employment
  • Wages
  • Work Outside The United States
• Government Pension Offset (GPO)
• Income Tax And Your Social Security Benefits
• Maximum Taxable Earnings
• Pension, Annuities, Interest And Dividends
• Social Security Credits
• Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP)

Editing notes:

• I changed the name of the page and deleted the link to the Earnings Limit Calculator. There's a link to that calculator in "Related Information" on whileworking-new.htm and whileworking2-new.htm.
• We may want to change the "Maximum Taxable Earnings" link from /retire2/topwages.htm to /planners/maxtax-new.htm. The planners version of "Max Tax" has additional information. If we do switch the link, we should add the 2012 maximum taxable amount to the first paragraph of the /planners/ page.

Link to current version.