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Timeline of changes to the age at which eligible persons receive the United Kingdom State Pension. Timeline (1908–2030) 1] † [2] Notes This page ...
However, when the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition took power, the Pensions Act 2011 [15] accelerated the rise of the state pension age to 66 for both men and women by 6 October 2020. [16] Under the Pensions Act 2014, the coalition government again accelerated the rise in the state pension age to 67 by 6 April 2028. [17]
The age of eligibility was moved to 65 for men and 60 for women, but, between April 2010 and November 2018, the age for women was raised to match that for men, [3] [4] and the retirement age for both men and women is increasing to 68, based on date of birth, and by no later than 2046. [5]
As of 2021, the average retirement age in the UK was just over 65 for men and 64 for women. As in the U.S., this average age has increased since the 1990s — but not quite as dramatically.
Previously, the retirement age was 60 for men, 55 for female civil servants, and 50 for female workers. [33] The 2024 change marked the first increase of the retirement age since the 1950s. [34] The retirement age will apply to men born in and after 1965, female civil servants born in and after 1970 and female workers born in or after 1975.
The 1995 Pensions Act increased the state pension age for women from 60 to 65 in order to equalise the age with men, with the change to be phased in over ten years from 2010 for women born between 1950 and 1955. [3] This transition was later sped up by the 2011 Pensions Act. [4]
The second tranche is currently taking effect as workers born in 1955 or later gradually see their retirement age increase to 67. That transition will end in 2027.
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