When the Social Security system was set up people would retire one year and meet their maker shortly afterwards, my mother in law is living with us having retired from the educational system 35 years ago!
I am not saying that I wish she meet her maker soon, rather that with such an expansion of our lifetime through all the improvements in medical care, nutrition and other factors, they have yet to revamp the system to take those factors into consideration.
“I am not saying that I wish she meet her maker soon,”
Yeah, riiiigghhht!
:D
If the retirement age were moved to 75, Social Security and Medicare expenses (and taxes) would be much, much lower.