🗣️ 'Well I’ll be dead before I’ve even got my pension.' Life expectancies in Blackpool are among the lowest ever in England.
But the UK’s falling birthrate and ageing population have got nerves jangling in the Treasury, as the number of working taxpayers begins to fall out of balance with the number of pensioners.To some, it means a frustrating extra period of waiting before they can relax into retirement – but to others, like Mark, it can mean giving up hope of reaching retirement at all.
Tony Townsend, who used to run a stall at the seaside town’s Abingdon Street Market, felt a similar way.‘I’m relying on that state pension to let me retire. We should do what the French have done, be up in arms.’ Schools, trains and flights were among the services brought to a complete stop by strikes across the country.
Reports that the raising of the state pension age to 68 could be brought forward have not been confirmed by chancellor Jeremy Hunt Blackpool is impacted by the same reliance on summer seasonal work that affects many other British seaside towns
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