Timezone is a string with a maximum length of 256 characters. New time zones may appear in future releases. If you need to add support for a new time zone, enter the exact time zone string. Set the TimeZone to one of the values in the first column of the Time Zone table, for example, Central Asia Standard Time.
The share of women claiming Social Security benefits at age 62 has also declined over the past decade, but women continue to be more likely to claim early than men. Half of women born in 1943 or 1944 claimed at age 62, compared with 60 percent of those born between 1935 and 1937.
How Social Security Works. Social Security is often characterized as a retirement program because a majority of its beneficiariesâ70 percentâare retired workers or the spouses and children of those people. In general, workers qualify for retirement benefits if they are age 62 or older and have paid sufficient Social Security taxes for at least 10 years. However, Social Security also provides other types of benefits, such as payments to deceased workersâ survivors, who make up 11 percent of beneficiaries.