Increased longevity will bring profound social change ft.com/content/a8f332… via @ft

Time to vote! Is there a lovely German compound word for the thrill of exercising your civic power? #LocalElections

Very much enjoyed speaking at this event on unpaid carers today. You can watch the event below and read the report here: centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/a-brit…

🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨

The state pension age is scheduled to increase to 67 by 2028 – yet our new report has found that one in four 60-65 year olds live in poverty.

Sasjkia Otto finds the number of over-60s in poverty has TREBLED since the pension age started to increase in 2010. 🧵

A quarter of people aged 60 to 65 live in poverty – the highest poverty rate for any adult age group. Heading to the launch of ‘When I’m 64’ today the The Fabian Society new strategy for tackling this fabians.org.uk Sasjkia Otto Andrew Harrop Victor Adebowale Patrick Thomson

Really good to see this new & thorough research on the 'menopause penalty' from Institute for Fiscal Studies.

20% earnings loss = big finding.

Amazingly thin economic literature on such a big and important topic....

Many thanks to the excellent Fairness Foundation for giving me the opportunity for this guest post on fairness in work and retirement in 21st century Britain. (Spoiler alert: it’s not very fair.)

‘Only 10% of the population get advice on their journey to and through retirement’

Government Business Champion for Older Workers, Andy Briggs suggests workers need to be better informed in order to save for decent retirements

#Newsnight

What’s a way of getting up to 400,000 willing workers into the UK workforce?
Pleased to have supported and contributed to this new The Centre for Social Justice report today proposing a set of measures to take unpaid caring seriously in our economy & society.

The social determinants of health appear to have fallen further down this Gvt's priority list today. So disappointing

In case of interest Debora Price Sarah vickerstaff David Lain Martin Hyde Tom Scharf

Prompted by the media commentary that Int Longevity Centre sparked with their provocation that the state pension might need to rise to 71, I’ve written a Medium piece explaining how our social contract on work and retirement is no longer fit for purpose. It’s here: medium.com/@catherine_foo…

Work until you’re 71? It could be time to echo the French – and get angry theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A nice clear agenda for the next phase of pension reform here from Jesse Griffiths. Our national undersaving crisis isn't going away without reforms like these.