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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Jones

UK’s LGBTQ+ community ‘more likely’ to face real hardship in retirement

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The research found that 36% of LGBTQ+ people were not a member of any pension scheme, compared with 30% of the wider population. Photograph: Rosemary Roberts/Alamy

Close to half of individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ are heading for a retirement where they are at risk of struggling to afford such basics as food and heating, according to new UK data.

Looking across various measures including amounts saved and pension scheme membership, researchers concluded that members of the LGBTQ+ community were “far more likely than the general population” to struggle in retirement.

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