Tag: Raising Full Retirement Age

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Abstract In July and August 2009, the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) conducted a survey to gauge three things: 1) how people were responding to the loss of their retirement assets due to the financial crisis; 2) who was responding by increasing their expected working life; and 3) how people were responding…

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Abstract Achieving long-run Social Security solvency requires addressing rising life expectancy.  Increasing the Full Retirement Age (FRA), while holding the Early Entitlement Age (EEA) fixed, could be effective but eventually will result in replacement rates that are viewed by many as too low.  A possible policy to prop up replacement rates is to raise t…