Some retirees previously ineligible for Social Security benefits may be owed thousands of dollars now — but they won’t get it if they never filed.  More than 3 million people are about to get a bump to their Social Security checks thanks to the Social Security Fairness Act,

We should all be planning for our retirement by estimating how much we'll need to amass by then and how we might obtain it. It's important to include Social Security in that planning, so it's smart to start getting an idea of what kind of benefits to expect.