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Increasing the retirement age by three months starting immediately is not "a lot" in my mind. But yes, I do believe they should increase the retirement age immediately. What is three months? If you can't postpone your retirement by three months I sure hope you have a good excuse.
At this point a good excuse would be "I already put in my two weeks' notice." Gradually raising the retirement age is a good idea; doing it suddenly without any advance warning whatsoever is not. In any case, it would provide only marginal savings in the face of the immediate 33% spending cut that will be necessary if the government does not raise the debt ceiling, because the only immediate savings would come from people who would've enrolled in August and now have to wait until November. I don't know how many people that is, but it can't possibly be a very big chunk of social security's total expenditures.