Tag: Social Security claiming
Abstract This paper uses the monthly Current Population Survey to study older workers’ transitions out of employment and into retirement before and during the pandemic. It examines whether the effect of the pandemic was particularly acute for workers with certain demographic characteristics and working conditions, and for those who faced different local public health and…
The brief’s key findings are: This study provides a pre-COVID baseline on Social Security claiming. The percentage of all initial claimants who are age 62 shows a steady decline over the past two decades, interrupted only briefly by the Great Recession. However, a better metric to capture claiming behavior over time – when the population…
