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Retirement

Part 2… a perspective

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Raj
Jul 07, 2026
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Retirement in my grandparents day wasn’t even considered… A couple of years before they headed to the farm to begin their journey together, the Social Security Act was passed in 1935, and the official age was 65 to retire and collect your SS check and potentially what at that time was your companies pension…

However they were farmers, had no company pens…

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