Bestselling Wall Street Journal author Kathleen Sindell, Ph.D. has taught and written about financial management for the last 20 years. Sindell's latest book "Social Security: Maximize Your Benefits" is easy-to-understand and provides "just the facts" about getting the highest retirement benefits possible. "Social Security: Maximize Your Benefits" offers practical information that allows you to select the optimal claiming strategy that applies to your personal financial circumstances. Based on your age and marital status (single, married, divorced or survivor) follow step-by-step instructions to maximizing your Social Security benefits. You can quickly select what works best for you from dozens of examples, figures, tables, and graphs.