The Screen Actors Guild Pension Plan is being urged to consider lowering the full retirement age for all members of SAG-AFTRA [Screen Actors GuildAmerican Federation of Television and Radio Artists] who work in physically demanding professions, such as stunt performers and dancers.

Stunt performers have been lobbying for such an action for decades, according to a Deadline report, without any luck.

They can currently retire  early at 55, but that will cost them a 30 percent reduction in benefits; what they're hoping for is full retirement at 55 because of the physical demands their professions make on their ability to work.

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