If you start receiving benefits as a spouse at your full retirement age, you will get 50% of the monthly benefit your spouse would receive if his or her benefits started at full retirement age. age 62, you will get 35% of the monthly benefit instead of 50% because you will be getting benefits for an additional 48 months.
* Excerpted by the National Humanities Center, 2006: www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/pds/pds.htm. From Bartolome bartolomÃ© de Las, Casas An, Account Much, abbreviated of The destruction of The, indies With Related, texts. Ed Franklin. W, & knight. Tr Andrew (Hurley Hackett. Publ., co), 2003. pp-2, 3-6. 8 permission. pending
Journalist-author William L. Shirer wrote this engaging account for young readers, yet it's a pretty good (if brief) read for adults. The narrative describes the launching of Germany's greatest battleship in early 1941, and the panicked British response to sink the Bismarck before she wreaked havoc on Allied convoys.