Nigel Stanley
Why raising the state pension age is no pensions panacea (Nigel Stanley, Trades Union Congress)
The easy way to give people better pensions is to raise the pension age, and distribute the same expenditure among fewer pensioners.
But it is far from progressive - and worse - is a sleight of hand. You can redefine pensions policy to exclude those people between 65 and the new pension age. But they have not gone away, and immediately pop up as a new labour market and welfare
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