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This time the centre-right government wants to save money by scrapping a pricey early-retirement scheme and raising the pension age.

The Chancellor announced a new mechanism that will automatically raise the state pension age to make it consistent with life expectancy.

Get used to it: we are heading towards a pension age of 70.

If the state pension age had increased in line with life expectancy, we would not be drawing it until our 75th birthday.

Pension age will increase from 65 to 70 years of age, and pension of reducing the number of can change of various ages asymmetry.

The grand coalition decided to raise the pension age, gradually, by two years to 67.

Companies, and countries, seem happy to turn to those approaching, or exceeding, pension age in times of trouble.

It recommended that the state-pension age should go higher than 65 to make pensions in an ageing society more affordable.

Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, has finally triumphed in a bruising battle to raise the pension age.

As well as disagreeing on euro-zone bail-outs, the parties are at odds on tax, pension age, foreign aid and immigration.

Workers at two French oil refineries have voted to end their strike against government plans to raise the state pension age.

With rising life expectancy, the pension age across the board is probably heading for 70.

FOR generations, the idea of raising the state-pension age was political taboo.

That means coming clean about debts in the banking system and the regions and speeding up a plan to raise the pension age from 65 to 67.

The second step is to halt the widespread practice of retiring long before the official pension age.

By contrast, it declined by only 1. 5 points among 25-34 year-olds and by 0. 4 points for older people up to the state-pension age.

Now America's official pension age has risen to 66, but people on average retire at 64 and can then expect to live for another 16 years.

That makes a compelling case for raising the state-pension age to 68 by 2030 or even earlier.

The state pension age looks set to rise to 66 in just six years' time, and may be extended far further -possibly to 70.

Mr Sarkozy wants to raise the minimum legal pension age from 60 to 62 years.

Raising the state pension age to 66 for both men and women by 2020 will also save money.

The pension age for both sexes will then rise gradually to 68 by 2046.

On pensions: From 2011 the Government will accelerate the increase in state pension age to 66.

In the longer-term, the potential gain from raising the state-pension age hinges on how many people actually work an extra year.

The state-pension age would then rise to 67 a decade later and reach 68 in the mid-2040s.

The government intends to increase the state pension age to 65 for women between 2010 and 2020.

In America the official pension age is 66, but the average American retires at 64 and can then expect to live for another 16 years.

Second, we are showing consistency of purpose on strengthening Britain's competitiveness: raising the pension age;

When should the state pension age increase to 66