From 2026, the full retirement age for Social Security will be 67 for those born in 1960 or later. This change, rooted in the Social Security Amendments of 1983, underscores the importance of understanding your retirement timeline.

Learn more about how Social Security's full retirement age has been rising since 1983, maxing out this year at age 67 for those born from 1960 onward.

Lawmakers don't want to see those cuts happen, so they've been talking through different solutions to prevent them. And one such solution is to raise Social Security's full retirement age. Currently, that age is 67 for anyone born in 1960 or later. Some lawmakers feel that pushing that age to 69 could help prevent broad Social Security cuts.