Re: Social Security (was Okiinwans)

[Guest guest]

The information from the table is interesting. It makes me realize

why the official retirement age is being raised. People born in 1942,

for example, will not qualify for retirement until 10 months after age

65, and later birth years increase retirement age even further.

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/nra.html

The fiscal solution for Social Security is: 1) to set the retirement

age high enough so that most people will die before they can collect,

or 2) to reduce the number of years that benefits are paid. Under

today's rules, males get to collect SS benefits for 15.1 years, and

females for 19.03 years. Increasing the retirement age, in

combination with the " Western-style diet " will reduce the amount that

SS has to pay.

Tony

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From: " Jeff Novick " <jnovick@p...>

Date: Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:01 pm

Subject: Re: Okiinwans

" Results: Table 1 displays the summary results for 1990 life

expectancy and two measures of Disability Adjusted Life Expectancy for

males and females at birth and at age 65: The national mean life

expectancy at birth for males is 71.75 and for females is 78.62, a

difference of 6.87 years. The range across the 50 states is from 68.62

in Mississippi to 75.37 in Hawaii (a difference of 6.75 years); for

females the range is from 76.67 in Louisiana to 81.36 in Hawaii (a

difference of 4.69 years).

For life expectancy at age 65 the national mean is 15.10 for males and

19.03 for females, a difference of 3.93 years. The range is from 13.90

in West Virginia to 17.62 in Hawaii for males (3.72 difference) and

from 17.64 in Nevada to 21.01 in Hawaii for females (3.37

difference). "