Are you a Baby Boomer?
Boomers have been filing for Social Security retirement for several years already.
On October 15, 2007, at an event hosted by Michael J. Astrue, then the Commissioner of Social Security, the nation’s first Baby Boomer, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, filed for her Social Security retirement benefits online at www.socialsecurity.gov.
Ms. Casey-Kirschling, who was born one second after midnight on January 1, 1946, was eligible for benefits beginning January 2008 and graciously helped promote filing for Social Security retirement online.
Here is a photo of Ms. Casey-Kirschling from that 2007 event:
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Today, nationally over 50 percent of all Social Security retirement applications are filed online. Learn how here.
Over the next 20 years, nearly 80 million Boomers will retire.
Someday, do you plan to retire? Boomer or not, Social Security should be part of your planning.
Lots of SSA retirement planning information is on the Social Security website, www.socialsecurity.gov, in the Retirement Benefits section and especially in the Retirement Planner area. Different calculators to help your planning are there including the Retirement Estimator, that connects to your own work record to provide an individual estimate.
Someday is closer than you think. Create your personal my Social Security account for additional estimates and to check your earnings record for accuracy.
