A prominent economist set out to determine whether America's rising average retirement age will ever level off.

The full retirement age for Social Security – the age in which you get 100% of the program's benefits – has risen over recent years.

told USA TODAY in December 2024. "You get lower benefits if you claim before that retirement age. Every month early you claim, you get a reduction." The age of 65 remains an important year for ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The changes aren't new, but are "more connected to when your birth is and therefore when your full retirement age is," Joel Eskovitz, senior director for ...

but are "more connected to when your birth is and therefore when your full retirement age is," Joel Eskovitz, senior director for Social Security and savings at the AARP Public Policy Institute, told ...