The Social Security full retirement age is 66 for most baby boomers born between 1943 and 1954. However, for people born in the five years after that, the full retirement age increases again in ...

Your full retirement age is arguably the most important number in Social Security, because so many things revolve around it.

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 rules are shifting again in 2026, and the age at which Americans can claim full benefits is at the center of the debate. While the scheduled rise in the full retirement age is ...