You are allowed to work but you can only make a certain amount. You could probably do full time at McDonalds. I think it is around 1300 a month you can earn and you can go over that. But for every two dollars over that you go they subtract one dollar from your social security payment.
No, you have to be 66. You can still work and draw SS benefits, but there is a limit to how much you can make, under 66. You’d have to check into it, I think there are different factors that figure into it.
Of course, it depends on what your normal retirement age* is. Mine is 66.
From what I understand, you get full SS after that age*, and you can work full time. From 62 to that age* the amount you get is pro-rated.
But I’d call to be absolutely certain.