PPI: Government can offer higher state pension and cut long-term costs

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The government can offer a more generous single-tier state pension and still create a cheaper system than is currently on offer, according to the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI).

Linking rises in the single-tier to earnings, combined with planned increases to the retirement age, would knock 1% of GDP off the amount the system costs the economy by 2050. PPI deputy directo...

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