{"id":183798,"date":"2026-04-02T20:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183798\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:59:11","slug":"hochul-considering-lowering-retirement-age-for-some-workers-to-55-the-post-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183798\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul considering lowering retirement age for some workers to 55, The Post reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/n329vgzgifdg9f14.jpg\" alt=\"FULL: Hochul delivers 2026 State of the State\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; Certain public workers in New York could soon retire at the age of 55, according to The New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-505993417-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Usa, New York, Manhattan, Hudson River (Photo by Marka\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>  Potential lowering of retirement age for some workers  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The New York Post is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/02\/us-news\/hochul-in-talks-to-make-deal-that-would-lower-retirement-age-for-teachers-nurses-to-55\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reporting<\/a> that Gov. Kathy Hochul is considering lowering the retirement age of certain New York workers to 55-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/oonkmb6jfjrkbyx1.jpg\" alt=\"Data: New York worst state for retirement\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Workers under consideration would only be public workers that were hired after 2014.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">If Hochul decides to pursue the change, the move could cost taxpayers $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article includes reporting from The New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/people\/kathy-hochul\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Hochul<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8211; Certain public workers in New York could soon retire at the age of 55, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[426,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,56,1232,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-183798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-kathy-hochul","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-new-york-state","13":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-state-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-people","18":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}