The Social Security retirement age: Who’s really living longer?

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19. Agreed, but isn't that toothpaste out of the tube?

What I'm seeking by my suggestion is a way to have some folks return to 65 or 66 as the full benefits retirement age, by looking at the disparity within jobs. The icing on the cake for the opposition is that the average age would move slowly upwards as we became a more technologically advanced society.

Nothing else could happen to undo the mid-1980's 'repairs' that produced the current 67 rule. We're simply not going to lower the age of collecting full benefits for anybody with the crisis the Social Security System is presently in.

I'm in agreement with you as to what employers want to do, but they're going to do that with the over-50's anyway, if that is what they want to do. Some employers recognize that people outside their child-raising years have more time to devote to the job, and they'll retain their more experienced workers.