What would you guess is the most common age for people to get an inheritance? Well, people at the Federal Reserve Board track such things, and here’s what they find: For any income group you look at, the age of “inheritance receipt” peaks at around 60. In other words, if you were betting on how old someone will be when they inherit money—assuming you know nothing else except that they stand to inherit—60 is your best bet. (That’s a natural result of the fact that the most common life span is 80 and the most common age gap between parents and children is 20, the report points out.)
