October 15, 2007: B-Day
Whoa, turns out today was B-day: The first time a retiring Baby Boomer ever applied for retirement benefits from the Feds:
The first Baby Boomer applied today for Social Security benefits, a milestone marking the approaching retirement of a generation of Americans whose eligibility for government payouts threatens to overwhelm the federal budget.
Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, a retired Maryland teacher who was born at 12:00:01 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1946, applied this afternoon for early retirement benefits. She'll become eligible to receive benefits in January when she turns 62.
[via
Bloomberg]
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