Pensioner workers more likely to keep jobs - ONS stats

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Employment rates for people beyond State Pension Age remained resilient throughout the 2008 recession - bucking the trend of the rest of the workforce, statistics reveal.

Labour market figures from the Office for National Statistics showed the employment rate for men over SPA remained steady at about 10% during the 2008-09 recession, contrasting sharply with the wid...

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