The Government has agreed to keep the State pension age at 66, and companies will not be allowed to force people to retire.
Last October, the Pension Commission recommended that the pension age should gradually rise to 67 before 2031, and 68 by 2039. But now the Taoiseach has strongly signalled this will not go ahead.
And he indicated people who work until they are 67 and older are in line for a higher rate of the State pension. Micheal Martin said: “The idea of flexibility is there in terms of when people take up their pension.
