social-security-tools VS LibreOffice

You can easily calculate how much you will earn via sites such as SSA Tools. As most FIRE advocates are also high earners, you can see that a few years at maximum earnings can easily boost you up to a reasonable monthly payment. Due to the SS "breakpoints," after a certain point any extra earnings aren't going to do a whole lot for you anyway, so those $0 years aren't that painful.

Our social security estimate currently says when we both draw at 65, even if there is no 22% benefit cut, it will still be short of covering our yearly expenses. BTW, the SSA Tools is fabulous for everything SSA. Please use it.

Personally I use a combination of the benefit report that the Social Security Administration creates annually and the ssa.tools 3rd party website that lets me tweak retirement age / expected contribution history (since I plan to retire early and thus I will not have earning up to 67). Then if you want to account for the possibility of reduced benefits, do so.

When you say that your Social Security is “at 1.2k/month currently” is that from your annual social security statement or did you calculate it using a third party calculator like ssa.tools?

Your benefits are based on the highest 35 years of inflation adjusted wages. There may be an impact, but it might not be by a lot. This might help: https://ssa.tools/

ssa.tools, but yes, that's a great site for this.

https://ssa.tools/ lets you upload your wage history, cut and pasted from your soc sec account.

https://ssa.tools. will tell you.

https://ssa.tools/ is a great website to play around with the numbers.

This makes sense, OP. The remaining survivor of a couple takes the higher benefit, so it might make sense to maximize one person’s benefit for the eventual time that you will only have one benefit. Play around here https://ssa.tools/ and see what makes sense in terms of your income as a couple vs remaining spouse.

First of all, if you need to write a lot of files in the doc format, there's a lovely office suite called libreoffice! Also, cups is a decent print utility for most printers, I'd check that out as well.

Try LibreOffice or OpenOffice .

Proof: https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/graphs/contributors

Both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice are descendents of the original OpenOffice (what you're probably thinking about.)

LibreOffice is under very active development and can be downloaded from https://www.libreoffice.org/

Apache OpenOffice is effectively abandonware at this point, see https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Product_Release It's mostly been maintenance releases since 2013.

If you want LibreOffice with support (or just want to support development), you probably want Collabora.

If you need programs like office word excel and power point but offline try looking into Libre office