That depends on your circumstances. Generally, you can take early retirement at age 62 under your own earnings record, but you would only collect 75% of the benefit you'd receive by waiting until full retirement age (65 for people born before 1943; 66 for people born between 1943 and 1954).
http://www.answers.com/Q/How_old_do_you_have_to_be_to_get_Social_Security
Beginning November 24, 1936, the United States Government will set up a Social Security account for you, if you are eligible. To understand your obligations, rights, and benefits you should read the following general explanation.
http://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/ssb36.html
There’s really only one big decision you have to make about Social Security and that’s when to take it. Regardless of your full Social Security retirement age, which ranges from 65 to 67, you can collect retirement benefits as early as age 62 as long as you’ve paid into the program for at least 40 quarters or about 10 years.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/financialfinesse/2014/06/13/when-should-you-collect-social-security/
If an individual is filing for disabled widow or widowers benefits, they must be at least fifty years of age to be eligible to receive benefits. These are the situations that have a minimum age requirement in order to receive Social Security disability benefits.
http://www.ssdrc.com/5-64.html
If you have accumulated enough work credits (typically 40) the earliest you can collect Social Security retirement benefits is 62. At that age, your monthly payment would be a…bout 75% of the amount you would receive by waiting to retire at SSA's full retirement age.
http://www.answers.com/Q/How_old_do_you_have_to_be_to_get_Social_Security
After full retirement age, you can earn as much as you want. by Stan Hinden, AARP Bulletin, Updated February 2012|Comments: 0. En español | Q. I'd like to know when I can take my Social Security and continue to earn as much money as I want without losing any of my benefits. I was born on April 28, 1946. A. The main thing you have to do is be patient and wait a few months until you turn 66. That's your full retirement age, because you were born in 1946.
http://www.aarp.org/work/social-security/info-08-2011/avoiding-social-security-earnings-penalty.html
Quick Answer. Individuals can collect Social Security payments as early as age 62; however, an individual may not receive full benefits until he reaches age 66, according to the Social Security Administration. At age 62, he can collect 75 percent of his benefits. That percentage increases to 93.3 percent after age 65.
https://www.reference.com/government-politics/old-need-collect-social-security-1ca21c3d43c0a3ba
The following information will show what age you need to be to collect 100% social security: If you year of birth is between 1943-1954 your age to receive maximum benefits is 66. If you year of birth is 1955 your age to receive maximum benefits is 66 and 2 months. If you year of birth is 1956 your age to receive maximum benefits is 66 and 4 months. If you year of birth is 1957 your age to receive maximum benefits is 66 and 6 months. If you year of birth is 1958 your age to receive maximum benefits is 66 and 8 months.
http://www.todaysseniors.com/wp/social-security/what-age-do-you-need-to-be-to-collect-100-social-security/
From the time you are 65 years old, or more, and stop working, you will get a Government check every month of your life, if you have worked some time (one day or more) in each of any 5 years after 1936, and have earned during that time a total of $2,000 or more. The checks will come to you as a right.
http://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/ssb36.html
You can receive Social Security benefits once you’re eligible even if you’re still working but there are a couple of downsides to this. The first is that if you’re under your full retirement age, you lose $1 for every $2 you earn above the earnings limit, which is $15,480.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/financialfinesse/2014/06/13/when-should-you-collect-social-security/
how old do you have to be to draw social security
You have to be 62 years old to draw social security.