Government urged to speed up state pension age hike

Jenna Towler
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Government should increase plans to raise state pension age and scrap the default retirement age completely, a PwC report says.

The financial services firm's report - Working longer, living better: A fiscal and social imperative - called for the state pension age to rise to 67 by 2030 and hit 70 by 2046. This is an incre...

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