At what age could I collect Social Security benefits frtom 1957 on?

Factual Questions
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I’ve tried searching several different ways, but the only responses I seem to get are variations of “What are your Social Security benefits if you were born in 1957?”.

2

Your question is not clear. Do you mean:

How have full-benefit and partial-retirement ages changed over time since 1957?

What are your full-benefit and partial benefit-ages if you were born in 1957? (The answer to which would presumably be on the page you found).

What age do you have to be to collect a benefit you earned in 1957? (That one’s pretty clear you could do so now unless you were a young child actor or something in 1957).

Something else?

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The first.

4

I googled using the term “Social Security retirement age over time,” and got an article from U.S. News, entitled, “How Social Security Has Changed Over 80 Years,” as the sixth hit.

In it, it says:

5

Thank you.

6

I searched for “social security retirement age” and got what seems to be the answer, and “social security retirement age history” found a page that states that the only time the age changed was in legislation passed in 1983.

https://www.ssa.gov/planners/retire/retirechart.html

https://www.ssa.gov/planners/retire/background.html

1937 or earlier 65
1938 65 and 2 months
1939 65 and 4 months
1940 65 and 6 months
1941 65 and 8 months
1942 65 and 10 months
1943–1954 66
1955 66 and 2 months
1956 66 and 4 months
1957 66 and 6 months
1958 66 and 8 months
1959 66 and 10 months
1960 and later 67
*If you were born on January 1st of any year you should refer to the previous year. (If you were born on the 1st of the month, we figure your benefit (and your full retirement age) as if your birthday was in the previous month.)
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As noted above, the list is for the so-called “full retirement” age.
However, it isn’t in reality… Those ages are just arbitrary numbers within the SS retirement range.
One can draw SS benefits starting as early as 62, irrespective of year/month date of birth. The longer one defers benefits, the higher the monthly allocation (up to age 70).
So, at 62 you can draw SS at the minimum rate; at 70 you will draw the maximum possible; and any time between the minimum/maximum, a fraction thereof. It’s fairly linear.

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But, from the information kenobi provided, this wasn’t true in 1957, which was the question asked. In 1957, you could claim social security retirement payments from age 65. There was no facility to claim a reduced payment from any younger age

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Yep. Forgot about Czarcasm’s clarifying second post.