Social Security retirement age set to change in 2025

(NEXSTAR) – Among the changes Social Security recipients will see in 2025 is a higher full retirement age.

The number marks the age at which workers become eligible to claim 100 percent of their retirement benefit based on lifetime earnings.

For years, the full retirement age was 65, but that changed with a law passed by Congress in 1983 to gradually raise that number to match the growing expected lifespan, according to the Social Security Administration.

The full...