Health Care Reform: Safe Harbor for Determining Full-Time Employee Status. New guidance has been issued on two requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the Act) that will become effective in 2014.
Early retirement benefits will continue to be available at age 62, but they will be reduced more. When the full-benefit age reaches 67, benefits taken at age 62 will be reduced to 70 percent of the full benefit and benefits first taken at age 65 will be reduced to 86.7 percent of the full benefit.
Social Security retirement age. To help improve Social Security's finances, Congress decided that the retirement age should be raised to 67. This is phased in gradually, starting with retirees who were born in 1955. For retirees born in 1954 or earlier, full or normal retirement age is 66 years of age.