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
An agitated Montezuma demanded that his soothsayers explain the meaning of these dire signs and was told that they prophesied the destruction of his kingdom. In fact, Montezuma had reason to be fearful - the Spanish had settled in Hispaniola and Cuba and were making their way toward his empire. The Spanish had made several expeditions to the nearby Yucatan in 1517 and had returned with wonderous tales of a high-cultured Mayan civilization and gold riches.