More working beyond state pension age, official figures show

The latest update to the ONS' Pension trends chapter 4 - the labour market and retirement estimated that 11.6% of women and 12.2% of men over the SPA were in work in 2012. The organisation calculated the average age men left the labour market rose from 63.8 years to 64.6 years between 2004 and 2010. Among women the average age increased from 61.2 years to 62.3 years over the same period. For men this follows a slight fall in the average retirement age in the early 1990s followed by a decade of stability. For women however, the trend has been upwards since 1984, with a particularly sha...