Pensions UK updates Retirement Living Standards as savers face 'cliff-edge'

Costs of minimum, moderate and comfortable retirement lifestyles have all risen

Holly Roach
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Pensions UK executive director of policy and advocacy Zoe Alexander
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Pensions UK executive director of policy and advocacy Zoe Alexander

Pensions UK has updated its Retirement Living Standards (RLS), warning savers face a “cliff-edge” when they reach retirement.

The organisation said the annual standards, calculated by the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University, show the cost of minimum, moderate and comfortable lifestyles in retir...

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