Retire at 60

Can you retire at 60?

Retiring at 60 often creates a bridge period before Medicare and full retirement age. A plan should show how income, healthcare, and portfolio withdrawals work together during those years.

Make the tradeoff visible.

Use one consistent set of assumptions for each scenario. That makes the difference easier to understand and gives you a clearer starting point for an important conversation.

What to compare

  • Model the years before Social Security and Medicare begin.
  • Include healthcare and spending assumptions in the bridge period.
  • Compare age 60 with a later retirement date using the same baseline.
Related retirement questions

Keep comparing the decision points.

Can I retire?

Understand this planning tradeoff before you run your own comparison.

Start with your own inputs

See your own comparison in 5 minutes.

Build a private plan, compare two dates side by side, and review the assumptions behind the result.