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    Britain's poor 'will die before they retire' if pension reforms aren't matched by health improvements

    Stark disparity in healthy life expectancy 'must be tackled' for pension age to be raised fairly

    Thousands of Britain's poorest people "will be dead before they can retire" if sweeping pension reforms are not matched by urgent action on health inequalities between rich and poor, experts have said.

    Plans to raise the basic state pension age to 70 for people currently in their twenties were laid out in the George Osborne's Autumn Statement this week. But with male life expectancy at birth as low as 66 in some of the most deprived parts of the country, public health experts have warned that a "one size fits all" pension age risks condemning many to a life without retirement.

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