More than a million UK workers plan to never retire - Canada Life

Ayesha Venkataraman
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More than one million UK workers believe they will never retire, according to research from Canada Life.

Despite the apparent extreme plans of those one million people there has a sizeable drop in the number of working adults who plan to work beyond their state pension age, falling from 19.8 million last year to 17.1 million in 2021. The research was carried out by Opinium among 2,000 UK adults between 10-14 September 2021 and extrapolated out. "Understandably the pandemic has had a drastic impact on this, with many people re-evaluating how they want to live and what they want to do in later life," said Andrew Tully, technical director at Canada Life. The research revealed the greatest c...

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