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The future of public sector pensions

Podcast
We sit down with one of the architects behind the current public pensions system and discuss whether it is sustainable or needs further reform.

13 July 2022

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Recent and future patterns of work around state pension age

Event 20 June 2022 at 11:00
How long are people's working lives? Are they getting longer or - since the pandemic - shorter? What will the working lives be like for future generations approaching state pension age? These are some of the questions we look to answer at this event which comes at the end of a large 2-year programme of work from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for Ageing Better.
IFS WP2022 Managing retirement incomes

Managing retirement incomes

Working Paper
In this paper we discuss the state of the literature relating to the decumulation of retirement wealth and the management of retirement incomes.

14 January 2022

COVID-19 will bring forward the date when the pensions triple lock is unpicked

Comment

Figures out today from the ONS show that headline inflation over the year to September was just 0.5%. With earlier figures showing a fall in earnings of 1% this means that under the “triple lock” next April would see the basic state pension and new state pension both increase by 2½%. This would bring the increase in the basic state pension over the last eleven years up to 41%, compared to 25% if it had been indexed in line with inflation or by 22% if it had been indexed in line with earnings.

21 October 2020

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Retirement saving of the self-employed

Report

In this report, we seek to explain this decline in pension saving amongst the self-employed. We examine the extent to which the decline has been driven by the changing characteristics of the self-employed population. We then explore changing attitudes towards pension saving, and changes in other forms of saving that might represent alternative ways of saving for retirement (and therefore provide an explanation for the patterns in pension saving).

16 October 2020

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Awareness of state pension entitlements

Book Chapter
In this chapter we conduct a timely assessment of individuals’ current awareness of their State Pension Age (SPA) and the income they can expect from the state pension, and explore how knowledge of these has changed over the past decade as the state pension system has been reformed.

9 October 2020

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A state pension age of 66 (until 2026 that is)

Comment

From tomorrow, for the first time in over a decade, the point at which people can claim a state pension (the “state pension age”) is simple. If you have reached your 66th birthday, you can claim it. Otherwise you cannot. For women, the state pension age (SPA) has risen from 60 in March 2010, reaching 65 two years ago in October 2018. From then on the state pension age rose for both men and women, to reach age 66 tomorrow.

5 October 2020