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Radical Personal Finance

343-Friday Q&A: When Should My Wife Take Social Security, Should I Buy Term Life Insurance as an Investment?

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On Fridays, I do a live Q&A call for patrons of the show.

Today we cover:

  • When Should My Wife Take Social Security?
  • Should I Buy Term Life Insurance as an Investment?

If you'd like to join a Q&A call, become a Patron of the show at www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/patron 

Joshua

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Friday here at Radical Personal Finance and. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host. Thank you for being with me.

0:27.0

This is the show where we work hard to give you the tools and tactics and strategies and information and inspiration that you need to live a rich life now

0:35.0

while also building and then pursuing

0:38.0

your plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

0:41.0

Fridays is where you ask any questions. We open up the phone line and you can ask me anything

0:46.1

that you want.

0:47.0

These Friday Q&A calls are a benefit which is open to patrons of the show at a certain level of subscription.

0:59.7

For details on that, go to Radical Personal Finance.com. Radical Personal Finance.com slash patron.

1:03.0

Radical Personal Finance.com

1:04.0

slash patron if you sign up as a patron of the show,

1:06.0

you can call in and you can ask me anything that you want.

1:09.0

It might be a good and relatively inexpensive way for you to, well, if you want to get my opinion or advice on

1:17.2

something, this is a good way to do it.

1:18.8

So let's go immediately to Paul in Hawaii.

1:22.1

Paul, go ahead and let me know what's on your mind and let me know how I can serve you today please.

1:26.0

Thanks Josh and aloha.

1:29.0

My wife is looking to retire and she'll reach full retirement age in about a year.

1:37.0

But we're looking then at delaying Social Security until 70 and I wanted to see what the break even point would be from taking

1:45.0

Social Security at 70 versus 66. All right so this one is is interesting and I will be able to give you some generalized advice,

1:56.0

but I'll also, ultimately, I'm going to point you

1:59.0

to a book and the very best book that is written on this subject and the reason I'm pointing into a book is because it's not a simple answer.

2:06.7

There are many extenuating factors and it'll be more than I can do just simply off the cuff with my I said I'll practice in this area every day.

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