The diversity of risk among age-62 retired worker beneficiaries

摘要: This article focuses on age-62 retired-worker beneficiaries, a group whose well-being may be affected by changes in Social Security retirement ages. The analysis: 1) develops different measures of risk poor retirement; 2) applies these to developing range estimates the for beneficiaries at threshold and 3) assesses how circumstances risks experienced vary such factors as race, gender, health status marital status. findings point great diversity among early retirees suggest that narrow conceptions fall short fully identifying distributive consequences age changes, especially African Americans, Hispanics, low-income, unmarried individuals unhealthy retirees.