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Financial Times
Call to ditch single pension age
12/01/201, Norma Cohen
'The paper, published by Oxford university’s Institute of Ageing and Club Vita, which is a consortium of actuarial firms that pools longevity data from pension schemes, concluded that the current state pensions system was “unsustainable” unless pension ages rose and far more women and older people were active in the workforce'.
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Daily Express
Call to make the state pension age flexible
13/01/2011, Alison Little
'The age at which the state pension is paid may have to be made variable, according to the Oxford Institute of Ageing and longevity advisers, Club Vita'
Money marketing
Government urged to link state pension to longevity
Money marketing, 12/01/2011, Tom Selby
'A paper produced by the Oxford Institute of Ageing and longevity consultant Club Vita says introducing a variable state pension age would acknowledge the wide variations in life expectancy across the UK.'
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Bloomberg
UK advised to end fixed age for retirement pensions, FT says
12/01/2011, Alan Purkiss
'The U.K. should cease to pay state retirement pensions at a fixed age, linking payments instead to factors such as healthy life expectancy or lifetime earnings, according to a research paper published by Oxford University’s institute of ageing and Club Vita, the Financial Times reported.'
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University of Oxford
Would a ‘variable’ state pension age be fairer?
12/01/2011, OU Press Office
'A study suggests the government should introduce a variable state pension to acknowledge the wide life expectancy variations across the UK.'
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Age UK
Call for state pension shake-up
12/01/2011, Press Association
'A paper, published by Oxford university's Institute of Ageing and actuarial consortium Club Vita, urged Britain to replace the single age pension rules with a more flexible model.'
BBC Radio Scotland
12/01/11, 4.40pm, Newsdrive
Mention of research from Oxford University’s Institute of Ageing suggesting Britain should adopt a more flexible approach to state pensions by linking retirement ages to different life expectancy rates in different parts of the country.
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