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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Vicky Shaw

The average age women can expect to empty their pension pot – and why it is younger than men

Women could risk emptying their pension pots 14 years too soon - (PA Archive)

Women risk depleting their pension savings 14 years earlier than men, potentially leaving them short for more than a decade before the end of their lives, new research reveals.

A study by Legal & General (L&G), released ahead of International Women's Day, found women could exhaust their private pensions by age 73, based on current withdrawal rates.

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