How will retiring early effect my Social Security benefits?
Explaination of how your Social Security benefit is calculated, see link: http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10070.html The Social Security Administration also has a program for your PC which will calculate it for you, if you know all your yearly incomes, see link: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ANYPIA/ Post #740 explains why high income earners shouldn’t worry it. http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?id=1380025000101008&sort=… Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Internal Revenue Code, Revenue Rulings, Revenue Procedures, etc: http://www.taxlinks.com/ http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm http://www.fourmilab.ch/ustax/ustax.html Applicable Federal Rates (AFR) Current Monthly Rates (AFRs for SEPP are in Table 1) http://www.irs.gov/taxpros/lists/0,,id=98042,00.html Historical AFRs (Years 1985 to 2000) http://evans-legal.com/dan/afr.html TheBadger has also made several informative and well documented posts on the subject: General info on PLRs pertaining to 72(t) and “substantially equal periodic payments” SEPP http://bo