Friday, January 28, 2011

What raising the eligibility age for Social Security means.

If it was 2007, and the SS eligibility age had been increased by two years, an additional 69,883 Americans would die before becoming eligible to receive social security benefits.  But dead people don't complain and they most certainly can't vote (legally), so I can see why Republicans might want to raise the eligibility age.

(source: CDC Mortality tables)

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