Aegon backs Lord Turner on state pension but favours flexibility over further age increase

Kristian Brunt-Seymour
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Everyone should be offered the option to draw their state pension earlier than the default age at reduced cost, according to Aegon.

It follows the former Pensions Commission chairman Lord Adair Turner calling for raising the state pension age to 70 by 2030, which would represent a radical acceleration of the government's timeta...

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