Your Social Security retirement benefits can start at various ages
Posted on:7/28/2009
Written By: Chris Robideaux
| You can get a reduced retirement benefit program as early as age 62. The 1983 Social Security Amendments raised the full retirement age beginning with people born in 1938 or later from 65 to 67. |
You can get a reduced retirement benefit program as early as age 62. The 1983 Social Security Amendments raised the full retirement age beginning with people born in 1938 or later from 65 to 67. But it did not change the minimum age for retirement. One man recently had his leg amputated as a result of his diabetes. He applied for disability benefits based on his diabetes a few years ago and was denied because he could still work. Now that his condition has worsened, can he get disability benefits?
The answer is he should certainly apply for Social Security disability benefits if his condition prevents him from working. A new disability determination will need to be made.
Under Social Security law, a person is eligible for disability benefits if he has a severe medical condition that is expected to prevent him from working for at least 12 months, or will end in death.