You can earn any amount and not be affected by the Social Security earnings test once you reach full retirement age, or FRA, which is age 66 and 2 months if you were born in 1955 and will gradually increase to age 67 for people born in 1960 and later.

Once you reach FRA, there is no cap on how much you can earn and still receive your full Social Security benefit. The earnings limits are adjusted annually for national wage trends. In 2021, you lose $1 in benefits for every $2 earned over $18,960.

But whatever you earn is still taxed!

If the train leaves the station at 4PM going South at a certain MPH how soon will be the bar car be open?  

After 65?    Since the first day you took a paying job, the combined extortion from local, state, and federal taxes are more than half the money you "make". 

Perhaps this question is better suited for a CPA forum rather than a real estate forum.

You may be confused. If you elect to enroll in Social Security early, you can only earn a certain (relatively low) amount before you run into an additional hefty tax on your Social Security earnings.

Personally, with Federal income tax, State income tax and the need to pay other income based tax, I only get to keep about 50% of my income, anyway.

If you read that on the Internet Will. IT MUST BE TRUE! 

Combined taxes, income, sales, gas, etc. are likely more than 50% but I have not separated taxes out to calculate the actual percentage.  I know where I stand on my tax returns.  

For what we are paying ... we are being robbed in terms of the return on investment.  Nuff Said.  I will step down from my soap box. 

Will,

I am not sure you are correct on this.  However, since I am not a CPA or a registered agent, if I were you I would check with your experts.  A

Half?  That would mean they take less?  LOL

I think an attorney or CPA, that is familiar with your personal situation, would be a better source to ask. 

I have no idea, Will.  I'm parked and reading.

I think you are referring to some IRS withholding regulations related to earnings after you start receiving your Social Security benefits. It's not that straightforward and 65 is not the magic number here.

We are the government and we take what we can get away with plus a little extra. Taxes go on even after death! They are here to help! And now we have Joey Crow for our bucks!

Back in the 80's they told us that our generation would need to rely on other means for retirement, and I expect that when and if I do ever retire I will need another source of funds, or a choice place under a bridge.

I don't think so but then again there I go thinkin' again

Since a couple of Realtors mentioned it would be better to ask somewhere else regarding your question, I tend to disagree! Ask away Will Hamm , we all need to know the answer. Frankly, I have no idea but it wouldn't surprise me :(

not true for my parents at all.  I have no idea I'm not 65 yet.

You don't cite your sources. 

I do know there are many retirees on SS here in my piece of paradise who not only keep close tabs on their earning but those who hire them do also. The context was about earning limits and exceeding them would result in very costly consequunces. 
However, as has beem mentioned and more real today than everbefore with nearly 10 TRILLION in new spending the ways to rob the taxpayer will become mind boggeling.

I have found I pay less taxes as I'm older where I live in Georgia