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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Richard Wheeler & Lottie Gibbons

Fears DWP state pension age increase from 67 to 68 will be brought forward

People will have to "work until they drop" if the Government speeds up moves to increase the state pension age, MPs have heard.

Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride declined to comment on the Government's thinking on its pensions plans ahead of the Budget on March 15.

A phased increase in state pension age from 66 to 67 by 2028, and eventually 68, are already planned. But there has been speculation that the increase to 68 could be brought forward.

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