Thousands approaching SPA 'too ill to work': TUC

The employment rates for people approaching SPA are 54% of men aged 60-64 and 62% of women aged 56-60, according to TUC figures. The government announced in its October 2010 Spending Review that the SPA will rise to 66 by 2020. According to the TUC's analysis, two in five people approaching SPA are economically inactive, with long-term sickness or disability cited as the main reason for not working. The union argued that increasing SPA will not automatically extend working lives, but will instead leave this group of people too sick to work but to young to claim state pensions. P...