A State Pension for the 21st century

The government has just published its green paper for State Pension reform, entitled A State Pension for the 21st Century. I thought nothing of the title but as I read the document through, it occurred to me that there are people alive right now who will be drawing their State Pension well into the 22nd century. All of a sudden the seemingly ‘radical’ suggestions contained within appeared out-dated before they’d even been implemented. What we need is a State Pension for the 21st and 22nd centuries. We can see where we go after that. The problem the government is trying to address is the ...