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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Business
Kate Hughes

Start work aged four to match male savings pots, women told

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Women would have to work from the age of four, or continue to work until 83, to secure the same pension pot as men.

That’s the startling message behind a slew of new data that shows half the population faces astonishing differences in old age funding thanks to a perfect storm of traditional expectations over unpaid care, lower pay and therefore less extra retirement cash from employers and government.

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