When Social Security was implemented, retirement age was 65, and if you reached 21, 54% of men and 60% of women would expect to live to see retirement age.<p>Then, if&#x2F;once you reached retirement age, men would expect to live 12.7 and women 14.7 years in retirement.<p>All of those numbers have increased since the program was implemented and continue to increase as we make medical and other advances that prolong life.<p>If you state the social security benefit in terms of &quot;years of life expected to be drawing social security&quot;, Silents and Boomers haven&#x27;t been pulling the ladder up behind them at all. If anything, they need to pull it up a little bit farther, IMO.