The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has dropped a bombshell by hinting it intends to ‘sweep away' the retirement age.
Falling in line with its five-year strategy and current drive to extend the retirement age to 65 so as to provide people with more ‘choice’, the DWP says it intends to provide people above the age of 65 with the right to request working for longer which their employers will have to ‘seriously’ consider. The startegy report says: "We are committed to supporting people to work longer...
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