Post by Bugs on Jun 24, 2010 9:12:52 GMT
The government is to speed up plans to raise the state pension age for men to 66, possibly by as early as 2016.
Ministers will also raise the option of extending it further, perhaps to 70 and beyond in the following decades.
The default retirement age of 65 - at which workers can be legally axed by employers - is also set to be axed.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said this would stop people being "cast on the scrap heap" and would help "reinvigorate what retirement means".
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10398918.stm
Ministers will also raise the option of extending it further, perhaps to 70 and beyond in the following decades.
The default retirement age of 65 - at which workers can be legally axed by employers - is also set to be axed.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said this would stop people being "cast on the scrap heap" and would help "reinvigorate what retirement means".
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10398918.stm
