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Benefits increase as well. I had no choice but to retire from teaching at 60, mainly due to looking after my terminally ill sister but also because I just couldn't carry on due to my own health. Being a Waspi woman had to manage on 7k for 5 years. Neither my Mum or sister made it to pension age.

So I’ve to work a year longer, pay into the state pension for an extra year and I’m going to get less out again and if the triple lock gets removed I’ll get even less. WTAF?!

This should be accompanied by stronger rights for workers to reduce their working hours/days as they age. The new Employment Relations & Employment Rights acts aren't enough. Making it easier to win a time consuming tribunal misses the point of why someone needs a shorter week in the first place.

💯 It is absolutely a cull of the working class!!

It was going to be 68, the issue is whether fair notice is given

The numbers of children entering school will drop at least 9% in 2031. Increasing state retirement age increases job blocking. Throttling the natural turnover allowing the younger generation to enter the job market. Then governments scream about younger people not in work. Retirees don't stop

Talk about making policy in a vaccum! Many peiple in their 60s want to continue to work part time, but, even in the public sector, at managerial level and above those jobs simply don't exist. The whole employment system for older people needs a big shake-up.

I could not have worked this long. Apart from which, I found that as I approached even 60, employers didn't want old people. I had an excellent work record & always found it easy to get a job - until I reached late 50s. Friends in my peer group said the same. Also, young people need jobs.

We already have one of the worst pensions in Europe, and it was always claimed that increases to the pension age were due to greater life expectancy, yet since the worst of Covid life expectancy has gone down. This exposes the lies. Would you want a 68 year old paramedic carrying you down stairs?

Work harder Work longer Work cheaper Die quicker

68! What a country.

Unfortunately for governments: pensioners have the vote!!!

AND - we gave the worst pension in Europe,

Have you actually read the article you've linked there? Because if you have, I'd suggest you read it again & pay attention this time.

Makes me sick! Retirement age should be 60.

First they came for circa 4 million women born in the 1950's....

I found it quite comical on reading an article on pension age last week. Apparently, by the year 2050,the retirement age will be 70. If you believe that,then you'll believe there's a Santa Claus.

This is a disgusting decision there should be ashamed of themselves and I hope it never makes it into policy

Cue the massive increas in people having to quit work & sign on as after forty years in physically demanding jobs their bodies cannot take it any more.

This is totally unacceptable. People have worked for decades towards a known retirement age to change it just a few years before people retire is not something ANY Govt should be able or willing to do!

The impact of long covid is going to make the future very challenging for some people, I doubt this is being factored in to decisions.

What is never accounted for is that people don't come out of a uniform mould. Some will not be able to work in their 50s. Some could go on more or less indefinitely. Assuming everybody can be fit to work till nearly 70 is unrealistic.

Those billions being funnelled towards arms companies have to come from somewhere.

They average years of living in good health is 61. This constant nudging up of the retirement age is a policy for a different time. The whole system needs reform and some more imaginative thinking required. Perish the thought we'd ever get that from our political class.

Jeez, this is the website of a national newspaper, can they not afford a proofreader?

I'm just re reading "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" - little has changed. Alarming.

We should be lowering the age of official retirement and introducing #UBI so that it doesn't really matter when someone becomes officially retired, semi retired or not. The key is ending poverty so that people have choices and Gvt can manage resources on behalf of the people more fairly.

Well said.

Well as a 1950s woman who had worked since 1973 and thought she could retire at 60 and was to find out at 58 that it would be 65 and then 66 spent years bringing up 3 kids and doing non pensionable p/t work while ex husband had full teachers pension I’m shocked …

We ought to be working a maximum of 20 hours a week and retiring around 50. We need to bring an end to consumerism, invest in leisure, welfare and health care. We need to reinstate and recognise the importance of parenthood for working class families. Our world is upside down

Do you know what else they’ve done? If you deferred claiming your pension, you used to get a lump sum with interest. Imagine my shock on learning you now only get a year as lump sum with the rest used to top up your weekly pension. It’s my money! They want us dead! This on top of the WASPI scandal.

Assuming employers haven't pushed you out by that age. It's bad enough trying to get a job in my mid 50s. Age discrimination abounds.

You wouldn’t think the UK has one of the worst pensions in Europe.

I’ve known 2 women personally who worked all their lives & died a few years before retirement age. One from ALS & the other from several issues including cancer. You don’t know what’s ahead & many people will die before official retirement age. It’s a cruel policy from the 6th richest country.

They are already making cuts...My partner retired in May this year, the previous year NI contributions to 5 April 2026 not included by HMRC so he gets less than a full pension....is this now policy to defraud millions of people each year?? Don't forget that year not credited is compounded.

The government works for the people, we don't want age 68 retirement, it's your job, go fix it, the population rejects your homework now go away and try harder to find the solution to the problem your peers helped create, the workers DEMAND it.

Now Burnhams in charge he better change it. Too many young can't get work and too many old can't. Let the old retire and the young replace, that's what the system is designed to do.

They want people to die before they claim pension. I'd they have to work more,pay more.

Billionaires are resources, we need to exploit them until they tap out dry! Rinse and repeat. All that stolen wealth is ours for the taking! We need to colonise their backwards states, teach them how to be better humans and use the resources they are wasting for our Benifit.

Oh, this article is terribly framed. The state exists to support the population. Saying the state will 'save 6 billion' by screwing over people is ghastly. You pay what it costs to look after people, not turning round and saying 'nah, rich people need their third penthouse'.

Work till you drop is the new norm. Healthy life expectancy is falling below pension age: www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

Weve all had plenty notice to pay into a workplace pension!

Living to work is wrong, working hard all your life & retiring when you are too knackered mentally & physically is insane.

Difficult to get a job once you're older than 60. But I guess they know that and rely on people cashing in other sources of income to survive.

Treated like pit ponies from 100 years ago, worked hard all their lives only fit for the knackers yard when no longer useful.

As life expectancy stalls or even falls. 😡

Work till you drop

I actually don't think the state pension as we know it will exist within the next 20yrs .

Derisory pension ever later. Successive governments both sides of the spectrum have failed to move to a ring fenced funded model along the lines of the Australian system preferring to keep running it from current taxation even though they have known for a couple of generations it would unravel.

Raising the retirement age won't help youth unemployment either.

Don’t know many people who can afford to retire now at 68 actually

Heres my controversial view, get rid of the triple lock and lower the pension age. I think it is better people get a state pension earlier even if it means they get less. Atm the system is gamed by wealthier people b/c they live longer.