While living in Brazil, I found an interesting version of this: Brazil's law allow (or at least used to) people to retire very early, because retirement is base

While living in Brazil, I found an interesting version of this: Brazil's law allow (or at least used to) people to retire very early, because retirement is based on years of contribution and a lot of people start working at the age of 14 or 16. So you have a lot of people who choose to retire early (as early as 49) and are receiving a decent "aposentaduria" (retirement). Some families choose to take up work as part-time help for others. I used to have a maid come in for about 4 hours once a week. She'd do all of our laundry, clean the house, wash whatever dishes were dirty, etc. She had a number of customers like us, plus one that'd pay her a set amount per month to come every day for a couple hours a day and clean/cook dinner. She was making about R$2,000 a month plus her retirement. It was a pretty decent amount, when a good salary for people my age was around R$3,000.