Retirement planning

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Retirement anxiety: do you really need $1.46m to have a happy old age?
The equivalent figure in the UK is £43,100 – a year. Time to start saving or come up with a watertight and creative plan B

03, Apr, 2024 @5:08 PM

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Little planning for looming retirement crisis, BlackRock chief warns
Larry Fink tells investors pension savings failing to keep pace with life-extending medical breakthroughs

Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

26, Mar, 2024 @2:43 PM

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‘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

Amelia Hill

21, Mar, 2024 @2:55 PM

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‘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

Amelia Hill

04, Mar, 2024 @11:18 AM

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‘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

Rupert Jones

02, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM

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To fix the pensions crisis, we must first reduce poverty | Letters
Letters: Prof Elspeth Webb says raising the pension age will not address the problems created by health inequity and poverty among older people. Plus letters from Ged Whitney, Nick Watson and Alison Loris

12, Feb, 2024 @6:29 PM

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‘We never got off the treadmill’: the Britons who can’t afford to retire
Insufficient pension pots and the increased cost of living have left many people’s hopes of stopping work in tatters

Jedidajah Otte

08, Feb, 2024 @3:03 PM

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The Guardian view on the state pension age: mindlessly hiking it is not the answer | Editorial
Editorial: Just one in 11 men born today can expect to reach retirement age in good health. A system rethink is needed

Editorial

06, Feb, 2024 @6:44 PM

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‘I can’t take it much longer’: workers too young for UK pension
People in middle age tell of difficulties finding suitable work and managing financially

Amelia Hill

05, Feb, 2024 @5:00 AM

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UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts
Research on life expectancy and birth rates shows that ill health makes status quo unsustainable

Amelia Hill

05, Feb, 2024 @5:00 AM

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We retirees are not sitting idle – we’re holding the country together | Letter
Letter: An army of retired men and women are working as unpaid volunteers in every part of civil society, says Deborah Jarman

08, Nov, 2023 @6:11 PM

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UK workers: are you having to delay your retirement for financial reasons?
We’d like to hear from people in the UK who are finding that their pension savings are now insufficient to cover their living costs in retirement

Guardian community team

02, Nov, 2023 @11:09 AM

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