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Retirement age

June 2024

  • Mary Beard

    Is Cambridge University right to enforce a retirement age? I think so – who wants to be a ‘job blocker’?

    Mary Beard
    Some say it’s ageist, and they have a point. But whether in academia or elsewhere, it’s only fair for younger colleagues, asks former Cambridge professor Mary Beard

May 2024

  • Helen Lederer, John Cleese and Alexei Sayle.

    ‘This is a ticking time bomb’: why are so many entertainers forced to work past retirement age?

    From jobbing workers to familiar names, legions of entertainers are working well into their 70s and 80s. Why? Our writer uncovers an alarming story of shrinking budgets, axed royalties, misguided mortgages and paltry pensions

March 2024

  • Hilary Simpson.

    ‘I felt like I’d been scammed’: woman describes chaos of state pension age changes

    Hilary Simpson was forced to make lump sum intended for five years stretch to over 10
  • Older people exercise to a calisthenics broadcast on morning radio at a park in Tokyo, Japan.

    ‘Ageing isn’t inevitable’: The 100-Year-Life co-author on how to live well for longer

    Andrew Scott says we can stop one of humanity’s biggest achievements turning into a dystopian near-future
  • Older woman wearing glasses using laptop at home

    ‘We’re hugely worried’: UK private pension rule changes disrupt retirement plans

    Banned from making transfers or told they must wait to retire, older people tell of fears for their life savings

February 2024

  • Models of people sitting on coins.

    Today in Focus
    Why is it becoming so hard to retire in the UK?

  • Woman opening an empty wallet

    To fix the pensions crisis, we must first reduce poverty

  • An older man and young woman working together in a cafe

    Raising UK state pension age to 71 would bring ‘misery’ to millions

  • An older woman sits at a desk with a calculator looking worried.

    ‘We never got off the treadmill’: the Britons who can’t afford to retire

  • UK women ‘need to work extra 19 years to retire with same pension pot as men’

  • The Guardian view on the state pension age: mindlessly hiking it is not the answer

  • Work until you’re 71? It could be time to echo the French – and get angry

    Zoe Williams

  • UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts

  • ‘I can’t take it much longer’: workers too young for UK pension

November 2023

  • A volunteer at the Golden Hill Community Garden in Bristol UK.

    We retirees are not sitting idle – we’re holding the country together

    Letter: An army of retired men and women are working as unpaid volunteers in every part of civil society, says Deborah Jarman
  • Older people dining and toasting red wine glasses in barbecue dinner party.

    Brief letters
    So the wealthy retire early? We’re shocked

    Brief letters: Pointless studies | Best thing since sliced bread | Covid and cognitive function | Caught short | University wordsearch
  • Paterson Joseph performs his novel The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho in St Margaret's Church, London, on 12 October 2023. A new memorial to Sancho will be unveiled in the church in December.

    Brief letters
    Two black heroes on slave trade abolition stamp series

    Brief letters: Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho | Seaweed servings | Bank profits | Retirement age | A vote for Labour

October 2023

  • Senior woman, engineer-technician, operating complex equipment on electrical dispatching station

    Pass notes
    A million Britons are already working past 65. Whatever happened to retirement?

    More people than ever are being employed well into their old age, some on punishing zero-hours contracts. It’s probably not because they all love their jobs

September 2023

  • Tesco employee pushing trollies in carpark

    Record number of over-50s in UK working part-time, ONS data shows

    Analysis reveals 26% increase in the last decade of people over 50 working part-time as perspectives on work and retirement shift

August 2023

  • Food delivery riders for Just Eat and Deliveroo in York on 13 January 2022

    The Guardian view on ‘unretirement’: older workers could help with labour shortages

    Editorial: Ministers need to better target policies to encourage economically inactive 50- to 64-year-olds back to work
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