Savings and Retirement Foundation with SSA’s Hillary Waldron, July 25.

Join us for a Lunch Meeting with Guest Speaker: Hillary Waldron Economist with the Office of Economic Analysis and Comparative Studies, Social Security Administration Who will discuss her new SSA paper: “Working and Claiming Behavior at Social Security’s Early Entitlement Age (EEA)” Wednesday, July 25, 2018 Noon-1:00 p.m. Location: Willard Office Building 1455 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (Lunch will be provided) There is considerable interest in evaluating the potential effects of proposals to increase Social Security’s Early Entitlement Age (EEA) in the Social Security policy literature (Waldron 2015). Additionally, there is interest in evaluating proposed changes to Social Security’s retired worker benefit that seek to shield Social Security fully insured workers deemed to be most vulnerable to those proposed changes (Waldron 2012, 2013). This project aims to contribute to both strands of that literature by extracting potentially relevant empirical information from Social Security’s administrative data files. To provide a first look at the data, this paper is limited to observations of work behavior at ages 61 and 63 and claiming behavior at Social Security’s Early Entitlement Age (EEA) of 62—that is at the age at which workers are first eligible to claim Social Security retired worker benefits. Under current law, retired worker benefits are reduced a fraction of a percent for each month a worker claims before his or her full retirement age(FRA). RSVP to savingsandretirement@gmail.com