{"id":903310,"date":"2026-09-20T21:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T21:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903310\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T21:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T21:16:21","slug":"heres-the-average-americans-social-security-benefit-how-do-you-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903310\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s The Average American&#8217;s Social Security Benefit &#8212; How Do You Compare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most common questions I get is &#8220;What does the average person actually collect from Social Security?&#8221; But this single number hides almost everything that matters. It&#8217;s also important to know how much it changes based on the age you claim, why the &#8216;average&#8217; is misleading in the first place, and how you can figure out where you&#8217;ll land. Let&#8217;s break it down.<\/p>\n<p>*Stock prices used were the morning prices of Sept. 18, 2026. The video was published on Sept. 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Motley Fool has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/legal\/fool-disclosure-policy\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disclosure policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Frankel is an affiliate of The Motley Fool and may be compensated for promoting its services. If you choose to subscribe through <a href=\"https:\/\/fool.com\/frankel\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">their link<\/a> they will earn some extra money that supports their channel. Their opinions remain their own and are unaffected by The Motley Fool. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most common questions I get is &#8220;What does the average person actually collect from Social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-903310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}