Teachers’ pension scheme: female retirees receive 28% less than men
Research shows how career breaks, part-time working and time in lower-paid roles affect incomesFemale teachers are typically retiring on much smaller pensions than their male counterparts, research has...
View ArticleIncrease in UK state pension age to 68 could come eight years early
Review will look at bringing forward plans, meaning millions born in 1970s waiting longer to draw pensionMillions of people born in the 1970s may have to wait longer to collect their UK state pensions...
View ArticleThe 60-year career: hope you like work, kids! You might still be doing it in...
With life expectancy creeping towards 100 and pensions failing to compensate, we are heading for a new era in the workplaceName: The 60-year career.Age: Sixty, obviously.Continue reading...
View ArticleSo just how welcoming is Britain’s job market to older workers?
In a job and loving it, forced out or happily retired – four over-60s tell how they feel about work, or the lack of it• UK worker shorting is hitting firms hardThe number of older workers leaving their...
View ArticleTory MPs raise fears over free prescription cuts in England for ages 60-65
As ministers look for ways to stem rising NHS costs, some warn against the move during a cost of living crisisConcerns are growing among Tory MPs about proposals that would scrap free prescriptions in...
View Article‘Pensioner poverty’ alarm as older people raid pension pots
Growing signs that people are using cash intended for retirement to get through UK’s cost-of-living crisisOlder people face the prospect of “pensioner poverty” due to the rising cost of living and the...
View ArticleHalf of older women fear having to work beyond UK state pension age – study
Survey underlines lasting impact that career breaks or working part-time can have on payoutsHalf of older women fear they will have to keep working beyond the state pension age in order to make ends...
View ArticleTell us: have you delayed retirement due to the rising cost of living?
We would like to hear from people who are delaying retirement because of the rising cost of livingThe cost of living crisis is placing enormous pressure on households and will leave many people...
View ArticleRetirement on hold for UK’s over-60s as cost of living crisis bites
Many older people are now finding they cannot afford to meet basic outgoings. So retirement dates are being scrappedAs her 66th birthday got closer Lindsay Hunt was making plans for her retirement. She...
View ArticleTell us: have you returned to work after retiring?
We would like to hear from people in the UK who have come out of retirement and returned to workAs inflation is reducing the value of pension funds and the cost of living in the UK soars, we would like...
View ArticleGet over-50s back to work to tackle UK labour shortage, says John Lewis boss
Sharon White says government should ‘think much more’ about encouraging Covid retirees to return on flexible basisThe boss of John Lewis has said that the 1 million mostly over-50s who left their jobs...
View Article‘I’ve always thrown myself into work – now it keeps me alive’: the over-65s...
Unable to survive on their pensions, many older people have no choice but to return to work. What’s it like heading into your 70s in the showroom, canteen or classroom?Before Sue Brown retired three...
View Article‘I can’t work in the office safely’: the over-50s leaving the UK labour force
The number of economically inactive 50- to 64-year-olds has shot up. Some can simply afford to retire – but many have long Covid or other health issues“I’m still working at home, but only just.” Before...
View ArticleRising asset wealth and falling real wages ‘drive inequality in Britain’
Young people no longer able to rely on hard work to improve their living standards as they age, says IFSWorking for a living has become a harder way to grow rich in modern Britain amid rising wealth...
View ArticleBritain lavishes benefits on plenty of rich pensioners. Let’s means test them...
Bumping the state pension age up to 68 will do little to help those who are so poor, they won’t even reach that ageIn a country so grossly unequal, nothing is fair. As the government plans to raise the...
View ArticleRetired early and wondering what to do? How about fighting for the rest of...
I don’t begrudge the comfortably off ‘silver quitters’ their good luck. But those of us who still have to work need their help on the barricades‘Where have all the workers gone?” asked a House of Lords...
View ArticleRetirement boom among UK’s older workers creates economic headache
Wyre Forest in the West Midlands has seen a huge jump in the ‘economically inactive’, many of them affluent older people, but the dearth of workers is a real problem for employers“I always laughed at...
View ArticleRetirement is not a rest nor a choice for many | Letters
Dr Melanie Jones, Judith Diamond and Mark Chapman respond to an article about early retirement. Plus Caroline Feinstein on the challenge of finding workEmma Beddington, how dare you (Retired early and...
View ArticlePensions: why do those retiring face ‘massive’ losses despite FTSE highs?
Retired planner was shocked to see that his Aviva pension had dropped 20% in value last year• Deadline extended for NI top-ups that can mean £55,000 extraA former government pensions minister is...
View ArticleDecision on bringing forward UK pension age rise to 68 delayed until after...
Move affecting millions born in early 1970s unlikely to come before general election expected in 2024Politics live – latest updatesBusiness live – latest updatesA decision on whether to bring forward...
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