Pause your Retirement benefit

Once you reach Full Retirement Age (between 66 and 67), you can pause your benefit payments. This pause will increase future payments by up to 8% per year, plus inflation. You can restart your payments whenever you'd like, or they'll restart automatically at age 70.


You won’t get payments while your benefits are paused, and neither will any family member who gets benefits based on your record.


Anyone on Medicare will need to pay premiums to keep coverage.