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When Men Should Start Collecting Social Security If you're a man approaching Social Security age, you're walking into a decision with some specific demographic patterns worth understanding. Roughly half of men claim Social Security at age 62 — the earliest possible age — locking in a permanently reduced benefit. For many of them, that's the right call. For just as many, it isn't, and they discover the math too late. Here at LifeHelm, we'd rather you make the claiming decision