The idea behind saving for retirement is to provide yourself with income between when you stop working and when you die. For those born after 1960, full retirement age — when you receive a full Social Security benefit — is age 67. So maybe it's not surprising that most U.S. retirement savers aren't planning on a lengthy retirement. "Building a plan around spending your assets down to zero, for us, we simply avoid it at all costs." In fact, the median retirement age for U.S. workers is 62, according to research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

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Persons: CNBC's, SurveyMonkey, Yusuf Abugideiri, Yeske Buie, Abugideiri, you'll Organizations: National Center for Health Statistics, Social Security, Research Locations: Vienna , Virginia, America