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Pandemic prompts some to rethink Social Security claiming strategy

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Concerns about shrinking portfolios, lost jobs may accelerate claims

The coronavirus pandemic and its fallout on the stock market and economy are prompting some clients and their advisers to rethink their Social Security claiming strategies.

“I have a client who retired young and is taking income from her investments,” Marlene Badai, an independent financial

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