Income and assets

This chapter presents an analysis of the financial situation of older people. In previous chapters we have presented some analysis of incomes for example, in Chapter 4 we showed how the incomes of workers varied according to expected retirement date and in Chapter 7 we showed how those who were not looking for work through ill-health had much less income than those who were retired or financially secure. In this chapter, we concentrate on the differences in income and assets across older people as whole.