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New petition calls for State Pension age to be lowered to 60 to ‘free up jobs for young people’
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dailyrecord.co.ukState Pension age back to 60 for both men and women to "free up jobs for young people" in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The petition, ‘Move the State Pension age back to 60 for both men and women’, on the official Parliament website, says this should be reconsidered, "with immediate/imminent effect", and has already gathered more than 13,000 signatures from supporters.
State Pension age increased to 66 in October 2020 and is scheduled to rise to 68 between 2037 and 2039, which the UK Government says is necessary due to people living longer and spending more of their adult life in retirement.
The latest projections from the Office for National Statistics show that the number of people over State Pension age in the UK is expected to.
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