Retirement age

Your retirement age is set by your date of birth. The statute's table raises the age across several bands, and some bands state the exact point not in months but in days.

The retirement age is set by the table in Tny. § 18(1), keyed on date of birth. A few bands in the table state the exact threshold not in months but in DAYS — that is not rounded to "six months", because the day count shifts slightly year to year around leap years.

Old-age qualifying-age table (Tny. § 18(1))

Born	Retirement age
before 1 January 1952	62 years
born 1 January 1952 – 31 December 1952	62 years and the 183rd day after turning 62 *
born 1 January 1953 – 31 December 1953	63 years
born 1 January 1954 – 31 December 1954	63 years and the 183rd day after turning 63 *
born 1 January 1955 – 31 December 1955	64 years
born 1 January 1956 – 31 December 1956	64 years and the 183rd day after turning 64 *
born 1 January 1957 or later	65 years

Each row is the birth-date range the statute states. Rows marked with an asterisk give the exact threshold in DAYS, not months.

The table's last row is final

The final row — anyone born on or after 1 January 1957 — is not the start of another transition: the statute states it as a permanent end state. So anyone born after 1957 has a retirement age fixed at 65 years, for good.

The required service period

Reaching the retirement age is not enough on its own: any old-age pension needs at least 15 years of service. The statute also opens a separate route for women who have built up at least 40 years of qualifying time: they can claim at any age, regardless of the retirement-age table. Exactly what counts toward that qualifying time — which caregiving periods count, and the genuine-work floor within it — is a further statutory detail this page does not itemise.