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That's impossible to answer. There are 3 main factors.
1. If you are under your official full retirement age, working will reduce your SS benefit until you reach full retirement age.
2. Your income from working is always subject to social security tax, even if you are drawing benefits. Depending on your prior work history, this could result in a benefits recalculation that increases your benefits.
3. Any taxable income when drawing benefits will also tend to increase the tax on your benefits as well. Assuming you are single, you are probably paying tax on your wages plus on 50% of your SS benefit. If you increased your income, you would pay tax on the increased income and you would pay more tax on your SS benefit. (But eventually, when you reach the income level where 85% of your benefit is taxed, that's the top, and more income on top of that does not increase the tax on your benefit any further.). You may also have taxable income from a pension, IRA or 401k, and if you don't now, you may later when you reach the age that you must take RMDs.
You can estimate your taxes with this tool, and try different scenarios of wages, benefits and pension.
https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/
You will never pay so much tax that you lose money by working more, but you should understand the tax hit.