Today's 30-year-olds more likely to save in pensions than previous decade

James Phillips
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People born in the 1980s are now more likely to be members of a pension scheme than those born a decade earlier, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

Thanks to auto-enrolment (AE), just over two-thirds of early 1980s babies are in a workplace pension, compared to just under 55% of those born in the 1970s at the same age. The Economic Circumst...

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