Country Age Age
Austria 60 65
Belgium 60 65
Denmark none 65
France 62 68
Germany 65 67
Greece 58 65
Italy 57 60
Netherland 60 65
Norway 62 67
Spain 65 67
Sweden 61 65
Switzerland 63 65
United Kingdom none 68
United States 62 65
Source: Wikipedia with recently announced modifications.
Note: Normal retirement for women in Austria is age 60 and in Switzerland age 64.
The next question should be, will companies hire someone that is 68 years old? Try and get a job here in the U.S. when you are over 65. Disability insurance for a company is most likely over $10,000.00 a year.
This is why the euro will die. There’s no way the Germans are going to sit still for an extra eleven years of work to foot the bill for Greeks’ early retirement.
Stands to reason....Germany is about the only European country that makes anything that world wants to buy.Greece,OTOH,is a member of the Siesta Bloc along with Spain,Italy and a few others.*SOMEBODY’S* gotta prop up that bloc....looks like Germany’s “it”.
Germans are moving to Greece.
The VA allowed me to work until age of 72 but because military acquired disabilities in OIF I had to retire.