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Frequently Asked Questions: Age 65 Retirement
Brief article explaining the origins of the retirement age under U.S. Social Security as determined by the Committee on Economic Security (CES) in 1935. Also discusses the first "old-age social insurance program in 1889, designed by Germany's Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck." From the Social Security Administration (SSA).
http://www.ssa.gov/history/age65.html
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