Confirmed: State pension age rise to 68 paused as life expectancy increase slows, but decision branded ‘politically expedient’

Government plans to raise the state pension age to 68 could be delayed due to a slowing of the increase in life expectancy, the government has said. Work and pensions minister Mel Stride told MPs “rapid rises” in life expectancy had slowed in the last decade, and plans for the date at which state pension [...]