Spending review: Life expectancy acceleration will outstrip SPA rise

Jenna Towler
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The government is greatly underestimating increased longevity and its state pension age hike is "not even treading water on the issue", Club Vita says.

As part of the Comprehensive Spending Review, the government said the state pension age would rise to 66 by 2020. However, the longevity analysis organisation said the accelerated rise in state ...

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