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https://www.statista.com/statistics/1361920/senators-age-share-us/
A third of the Senate is over 70, and another third are between 60 and 69....
Roughly 2/3s of the Senate is past the normal retirement age
Technically retirement age is 65 (might have moved to 67). But don't worry, Republicans have proposed moving the retirement agree to 75. That'd really cut down on the senators past retirement age and they don't even have to retire!
It's got raised to 67 for OASDI already
But only if you were born after 1960, most of the boomers still get OASDI earlier.
Having a retirement age of 67 should be seen as a complete failure of our society. Boeing did a study that found if their employees retired at 55, then they collected retirement benefits on average for 25 years - dying at 80 years old.
However, those that retired at 65 only collected retirement benefits for
2 years18 months - dying at 67. Basically meaning that for every year you work past 55, you're missing out on 2 years of retirement (working an extra year and also taking a year off your life).A retirement age of 67 is basically the same as having no retirement age at all. It's just a "fuck you, work till you die."
I mean, if they can somehow move retirement to 75, they’ll absolutely use that as a justification to kill social security.
Isn't that like, longer than our average lifespan?
Pretty sure that's like early 80s or maybe late late 70s. So you can have a few years to enjoy your retirement at least. What a deal, right?!
It'll be nice to have time to enjoy my hobbies that I'm too rickety for and to spend time with my family that's dead
That's the point, you work and pay for a dream of not working and before you can collect you die.