Health Care Reform: Safe Harbor for Determining Full-Time Employee Status. New guidance has been issued on two requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the Act) that will become effective in 2014.
Early retirement benefits will continue to be available at age 62, but they will be reduced more. When the full-benefit age reaches 67, benefits taken at age 62 will be reduced to 70 percent of the full benefit and benefits first taken at age 65 will be reduced to 86.7 percent of the full benefit.
Retirement age. If you have 25 years' pensionable service, you can retire with an ordinary pension paid immediately on retirement once you reach age 50. If you have 30 years' pensionable service, you may retire with an immediate pension before age 50.hort service pensions are paid immediately if you retire with less than 25 years' service at what would have been the compulsory retirement age for your rank before the following new compulsory retirement ages were introduced on 1 October 2006.