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Hey everyone and welcome to the Big Picture Retirement Show, where we deliver insight on what you need to know for a meaningful retirement.

If you are planning for or living in retirement, this is the show for you.

I'm Devin and with me today for our listener question episode is John Rawls.

Hey, John.

Howdy.

All right.

So, John, questions at big picture retirement is the email address that our listeners can send things into.

We also get these posted over on my site, Social Security Intelligence.

You have stuff that comes into your Ross & Showmire website, so on and so forth.

We get lots of people asking us questions.

Lots of people asking lots of questions.

And so we try to sort through these and find some that are interesting got some good topics to talk about yeah the

broad appeal that we have and let's go through a couple that i think are beneficial to all of our

listeners all right let's do it so let's take this one that i have here first it's from someone who

used their first initial which is b he said so i've stopped working and now I want to go back to

work. How will that impact my social security benefits? It's a good question. That is a good

question. Now, he didn't provide any details about his actual earnings amount or anything like that,

but this really goes back to the way his social security benefit is calculated, which is based on his

highest 35 years of earnings.

Okay.

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