Readers frequently tell me that they talked to two different Social Security Administration agents and got two different answers. Or they tell me that a neighbor gave them one bit of Social Security advice, but another neighbor told them something else.
Sometimes I will do a little digging and learn that they didn’t really get conflicting information. Rather, they got the same information or answer, but it was simply presented in different ways. Or they posed a question to a Social Security rep and got one answer, and then later asked what they thought was the same question of another rep and got a different answer. Today’s column will give some examples of what I am talking about.
