Benefits of Bilingualism

I recently came across an article on BroadyESL on the benefits of bilingualism. I often wondered this before, however when I came across this it seemed to answer all of my questions. Some benefits include linguistic, cognitive, and linguistic benefits, individual benefits, as well as social benefits.

http://www.sc-languages-plus.info/2013/language-learning/the-benefits-of-bilingualism-06041163