The number of Americans who expect to retire by age 65 has dropped dramatically since 1991, while the number who expect to retire after 70 has shot up, according to a report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
One-quarter of workers in EBRI's 2013 Retirement Confidence Survey said that the age at which they expect to retire has changed in the past year, and of those, 88 percent believe their expected retirement age has increased.
Twenty-two percent of all workers said they would postpone their retirement. The reality, however, is that even though those people want to work longer, health issues and their employers could prevent them from doing that.
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