Got my statement of estimated benefits from social security. If I reture at age 62 I could get $879 month. If I worked until age 67 I could get $1274 a month. At age 70 its $1590/month.
I’m glad that it would be a supplementary income in addition to my retirement from work and interest from savings. But I got to thinking about my grandmother and others like her who are living on $600 - 800 a month. She worked so much harder and longer than I ever have. She started working at age 13 and, after her husband left her with 2 small children, she worked sometimes up to 3 jobs at a time. She still rinses off aluminum foil and plastic baggies.
It doesn’t seem fair, somehow.