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Mornings: With Stephen Jardine - 19/08/2019

Stephen Jardine

With Stephen Jardine - 19/08/2019

BBC Radio Scotland - Mornings, With Stephen Jardine - 19/08/2019

Are you prepared to work until you are 75?

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The state pension age should rise to 70 by 2028 and to 75 by 2035 to help boost the UK economy, according to a new report.  The Centre for Social Justice  think-tank, headed by Tory former leader Iain Duncan-Smith, said evidence suggests the UK is "not responding to the needs and potential" of an ageing workforce - with hundreds of thousands of people aged 50-64 deemed "economically inactive".

Are you prepared to work until you're 75?

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