Did lawmakers in the United States pass new legislation in March 2025, allowing women to retire at the age of 52, with monthly payments of $4,850, regardless of their previous occupations? No, that's not true: neither the White House website, nor any federal government website, contained mentions of any such law. A Google News search also yielded no relevant entries.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) on TikTok on March 14, 2025, with the embedded caption:
AFTER WORKING FOR 30 YEARS, AMERICAN WOMEN CAN NOW RETIRE AT 52 WITH AFULL PENSION OF $4,850 A MONTH
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Mon Mar 17 11:40:38 2025 UTC)
Those claims were false. On March 17, 2025, Lead Stories conducted a search of the White House website (archived) for the words "women retire at 52" and found no results.
We conducted a Google search (archived) for the same words on all U.S. federal government websites, including the website of the U.S. Congress, using the "site:.gov" operator, and again found no relevant results.
Finally, we used the same set of words to search Google News (archived) for any relevant news stories, but again found no results.
If Congress had passed a law in March 2025 which allowed women to retire at the age of 52, that law would undoubtedly have been mentioned extensively in at least two of the above sources, and the absence of any relevant references from those sources is clear proof that no such law was passed.
