Talkin' 'Bout My (Sigh) Generation...

This press release just in from the Social Security Administration:

First Baby Boomer in Nation to Apply for
Social Security Retirement --Online

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, invites the media to join him and Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, the nation's first Baby Boomer, as she files for her Social Security retirement benefits online on Monday, October 15th at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Casey-Kirschling, a retired teacher and resident of Maryland, was born on January 1, 1946, at 12:00:01 a.m. With her 62nd birthday right around the corner, she will apply for her benefits using the online application at www.socialsecurity.gov to become the first boomer in the United States to receive Social Security retirement benefits.

With 80 million baby boomers born from 1946 to 1964, Ms. Casey-Kirschling will make history as the first of her generation to receive Social Security retirement. And, she will do it online.