Planning for retirement means understanding when you can start collecting Social Security benefits. The age at which you ...

Social Security's "full retirement age" sounds like a clear finish line, a moment when work ends and benefits simply replace ...

For most of Social Security's history, full retirement age (FRA) was simple. You hit 65, you get your full benefit. That started to change in the 1980s, when Congress passed a law that slowly pushed ...

Social Security's full retirement age is shifting again in 2026, and for millions of Americans that change will quietly reset what "on time" retirement means. The move caps a four-decade phase in of ...