UK - Simplification Report author Alan Pickering says that to boost savings, the state pension should be doubled to 40% of average wages and to achieve that, the pension age should be raised from 65 to 68.
In his new paper entitled ‘How the government can get us saving again’, Pickering said: “By 2008, the basic and state second pensions should be amalgamated and the facility to contract-out should b...
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