State pension age

The government could ease the transition to the flat rate state pension by paying out old state second pension entitlements as one-off sums in a ‘buyout' arrangement, Barnett Waddingham says.

The Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed the move to a flat-rate state pension.

Hannah Brenton examines the many complications the government faces in a flat-rate state pension

Employers expect increases in the typical retirement age to outpace the rise in the state pension age, according to research from the Association of Consulting Actuaries.

Europeans are worried about their retirement but less than a third expect to increase their retirement age, research by ING has shown.

Around half a million people who are approaching the current state pension age are too ill to work, the Trades Union Congress says.

Employers expect a shift in their workforce's demographic profile due as a result of the abolition of the default retirement age, Jelf Employee Benefits says.

Impaired life annuities could offset ‘unfair' rises in state pension age for groups with lower life expectancy, the pension minister says.

The number of people in the UK working beyond state pension age has almost doubled over the last 20 years according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics.

France's new Socialist government, led by President Francois Hollande, will today present a decree that will lower the state pension age for people who started work early in life.