Sep 19, 2025

I Sorta See Your Point But I Don’t Think It’s Much Of A Problem And I Don’t See How This Helps

      From a summary of a bill reported out of the House Ways and Means Committee:

Studies show that people are confused by the current SSA terms and are generally uninformed about how their claiming decisions affect their monthly benefits.

  • As a result, many of today’s seniors are missing out on substantial retirement income because of suboptimal claiming decisions.

The Claiming Age Clarity Act:

Directs the Social Security Commissioner to change the terminology SSA uses when describing benefit claiming ages to better reflect the implications of claiming decisions:

  • FRA [Full Retirement Age] would be referred to as the “standard monthly benefit age.” 
  • “Early eligibility age” would be referred to as the “minimum monthly benefit age” 
  •  Any reference to age 70 as the maximum age up to which delayed retirement credits can be accrued would be referred to as the “maximum monthly benefit age.”
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