By Larry Kotlikoff

Originally posted at nextavenue, April 2017 

Fidelity Investments recently released a survey about when Americans say they plan to start claiming Social Security and how much they know about the basics of Social Security. As someone who specializes in writing about how the Social Security system works — or doesn’t work — I’d like to offer my take on the survey’s results. (These are my personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of Next Avenue.) MORE