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Considerations on State Pension Age in the United Kingdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

R. Hammond ,
S. Baxter ,
R. Bramley ,
A. Kakkad ,
S. Mehta  and
M. Sadler
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Abstract

State Pension Age (SPA) is an issue of topical interest in the United Kingdom at the time of writing owing to the Government’s plans to link SPA at future dates to estimates of the projected longevity of the population. This paper considers the background to the current position, how the linkage is proposed to work, other factors that may need to be considered and some changes in the proposed State pension regime that could be alternatives to, or complementary with, a changing SPA.

Keywords

State Pension AgeState PensionsLife Expectancy
Type
Sessional meetings: papers and abstracts of discussions
Information
British Actuarial Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 165 - 203
Copyright
© Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 2015 

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