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Keith Morris—Alamy

Worried you'll run out of money over a long life? Delay collecting Social Security for as long as you can. Say you'd get $27,000 a year claiming at age 66. If instead you live off $108,000 of savings until 70, your initial benefit jumps to nearly $36,000.

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