Britons may need part-time work to fund retirement - Aviva

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Millions of Britons will be forced into part-time work to fund their retirement, research suggests.

More than 5% of 1,200 respondents to insurer Aviva's survey - which it argues represents more than three million UK individuals - said they had no current retirement plans in place at all. Elsewhere in the poll of people approaching retirement, nearly a quarter said they have cut their outgoings in the past 12 months to enable them to save enough for their retirement. More than one in 10 said they have begun looking for additional sources of income to supplement their pension. A quarter cited financial worries and 'making ends meet' as their main concerns for the future, while th...

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