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Women and Pensions 8 October 2009
Raising the state pension age

This week the Conservative party announced plans to increase the age at which people can claim their state pension to 66. This will bring a further change to working women because under current legislation the age at which they claim their pension is set to rise to bring them in line with mens' retirement age by 2020. So what are the implications of all these changes for women and why, historically, has there been a gap between the age at which men and women retire? Jane speaks to Professor Noel Whiteside from Warwick University who is currently looking at pensions in Europe and Dr Ros Altmann former government advisor on pensions policy and an adviser to the pensions industry.


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