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Social Security: Fact Sheet on Changes in the Retirement Age (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Jan. 5, 2000
Report Number RS20423
Report Type Report
Authors Geoffrey Kollmann, Domestic Social Policy Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The Social Security "full retirement age"-the age at which retired workers, aged spouses, or surviving aged spouses receive benefits that are not reduced for "early" retirement-will gradually rise from 65 to 67 beginning with people who attain age 62 in 2000 (i.e., those born in 1938). Early retirement benefits will still be available beginning at age 62 (age 60 for aged widows and widowers), but at lower levels.