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Dependency time-bomb |
Britain must urgently take steps to prepare for the seismic impact of a rapidly ageing population
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Revealed: the best places in the world for retirement |
Do you feel you’ve had enough of the rat race and want to jet off to a life in the sun? RECORD numbers of Britons are fleeing the country for more appealing climates, lower taxes, more affordable property and fewer traffic jams.
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As baby-boomers ease into slippers, pension time bomb starts ticking |
Are you suffering from the UK slowdown? Does the global economy affect you? As a Telegraph reader, you may think not - or, at least, not much. After all, you're probably quite well-off and, if employed, in a solid professional job.
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The high price of finding someone to care |
Choosing a home to look after an elderly relative involves emotion as well as cost
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Putting your extra pension pot to work with new transfer rules |
From October 2008, millions of pension savers will be able to benefit from new rules being introduced which allow you to transfer the whole of your retirement pot.
While the change may seem small, it could be significant for the eight million people who have money tied up in what are known as 'protected rights'.
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Older people in the UK
(or some scary things you probably don’t know!) |
- There are nearly 12 million pensioners, almost 1 in 5 of the UK’s total population
- There are 20.5 million people aged 50 years and over, over a third of the total UK population
- There are 9,687,800 people in the UK aged 65 and above
- About one and a quarter million people are aged 85 or over
- There are eleven thousand centenarians
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