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To: TheStockFairy who wrote (203397)5/21/2009 11:50:38 AM
From: ajtj99Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 306849
 
When the Social Security Act was passed in the mid 1930's allowing payments to people 65 and over, the average life expectancy was 62.

The spirit of pensions as originally designed was that by the time you were eligible to receive them, you'd likely already be dead.