Reply #102: So we should just tell them, "Put your back into it. It's for your own good"?

[MilesColtrane]

I'll match your anecdotal evidence with some of mine.

My dad got to enjoy a little over a year of retirement, after working his ass off his entire life, before being diagnosed with cancer.

If SS benefits were still a couple of years away he never would have had that brief time to enjoy some of what he had worked for his entire life.

It would have been straight from the chemical plant to surgery and chemotherapy, and eventually the hospice.

You see, not everybody wants to work or can work all the way to the age of 75.

Delaying benefits until then should be optional.