Michael Johnson - The state pension is unaffordable

Michael Johnson, CPS research fellow, joined Paul Lewis on the Money Box programme to discuss the future of the state pension as part of BBC Radio 4’s “Death of Retirement” series.

Michael talks about his proposals, detailed in reports published by the Centre for Policy Studies, to raise the state pension age significantly and consider scrapping the fixed pension age.

Read the full story on the BBC News website or listen to the show here.

Date Added: Saturday 5th August 2017