# Social security benefits

**URL:** <https://community.clark.com/t/social-security-benefits/5680>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 11, 2024, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/social-security-benefits/5680 "2024-07-11T12:39:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![David\_Dobson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.clark.com/david_dobson/32/2056_2.png) [@David\_Dobson](https://community.clark.com/u/David_Dobson)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/social-security-benefits/5680/1 "2024-07-11T12:39:23Z")

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How much can I earn while receiving SS benefits?

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**Author:** ![JPW050](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@JPW050](https://community.clark.com/u/JPW050)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/social-security-benefits/5680/2 "2024-07-11T12:48:39Z")

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If you haven’t already, open an account online at [SSA.GOV](http://SSA.GOV). You will be able to check your earnings history and a forecasted benefit amount can be determined.

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**Author:** ![H200h](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@H200h](https://community.clark.com/u/H200h)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/social-security-benefits/5680/3 "2024-07-11T14:48:37Z")

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> [@David\_Dobson](#):
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> How much can I earn while receiving SS benefits?

Are you asking ; “How much will my SS check be?”  
or  
“After I start receiving SS, how much can I earn working at a job without impacting my SS benefits?”

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**Author:** ![David\_Dobson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.clark.com/david_dobson/32/2056_2.png) [@David\_Dobson](https://community.clark.com/u/David_Dobson)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/social-security-benefits/5680/4 "2024-07-11T15:43:44Z")

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How much money am I allowed to earn per year, while also collecting social security benefits? I’m 62 and this will be the first year of collecting benefits.

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**Author:** ![H200h](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e79b87/32.png) [@H200h](https://community.clark.com/u/H200h)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/social-security-benefits/5680/5 "2024-07-11T19:56:42Z")

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> [@David\_Dobson](#):
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> How much money am I allowed to earn per year, while also collecting social security benefits? I’m 62 and this will be the first year of collecting benefits.

[From ssa.gov](https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/whileworking.html#:~:text=If%20you%20are%20under%20full,earn%20above%20a%20different%20limit.)  
If you are under full retirement age for the entire year, we deduct $1 from your benefit payments for every $2 you earn above the annual limit. **For 2024, that limit is $22,320**.

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**Author:** ![David\_Dobson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.clark.com/david_dobson/32/2056_2.png) [@David\_Dobson](https://community.clark.com/u/David_Dobson)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/social-security-benefits/5680/6 "2024-07-11T23:29:16Z")

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Thanks

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**Author:** ![SonoranSilkies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SonoranSilkies](https://community.clark.com/u/SonoranSilkies)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/social-security-benefits/5680/7 "2024-07-12T13:45:33Z")

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Once you reach full retirement age, there is no limit.

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**Author:** ![ochotona](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.clark.com/ochotona/32/293_2.png) [@ochotona](https://community.clark.com/u/ochotona)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.clark.com/t/social-security-benefits/5680/8 "2024-07-12T14:43:01Z")

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That was a terrible result of the 1980s law that put that cap it… THEY DIDN’T INDEX IT TO INFLATION!