This press release just in from the Social Security Administration:
First Baby Boomer in Nation to Apply for
Social Security Retirement –OnlineMichael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, invites the media to join him and Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, the nation’s first Baby Boomer, as she files for her Social Security retirement benefits online on Monday, October 15th at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Casey-Kirschling, a retired teacher and resident of Maryland, was born on January 1, 1946, at 12:00:01 a.m. With her 62nd birthday right around the corner, she will apply for her benefits using the online application at http://www.socialsecurity.gov to become the first boomer in the United States to receive Social Security retirement benefits.
With 80 million baby boomers born from 1946 to 1964, Ms. Casey-Kirschling will make history as the first of her generation to receive Social Security retirement. And, she will do it online.