Pandemic takes toll on UK retirement plans of over-50s
Financial Times quotes Ros in an article exploring the impact of Covid19 on retirement plans and she calls for early access to State Pension if people genuinely cannot work any longer.
Let the old retire early, former minister urges as state pension age rises to 66
Ros is quoted in the Daily Telegraph calling for a flexible attitude to state pension age that can help those who genuinely can’t work, or have no private savings, to have some state pension early, especially if they have long NI records
Covid-19 forces rising numbers of over-50s women to retire early
Ros is quoted by Interactive Investor explaining that many older women are being forced into retirement by Covid 19 fallout. ( link to pdf )
Former minister Baroness Ros Altmann speaks at seminar on ageism
Ros spoke at a Seminar about the value of older workers, and her keynote speech is reported in the Jewish News. ( link to pdf )
Will ageism get worse in the post-pandemic workplace?
The Financial Times explores the impact of the coronavirus crisis on older people and age discrimination, especially in the workplace with Ros expressing fears that older people will lose out significantly.
Ministers say healthy over 70s WILL be released from lockdown with rest of UK despite scientists insisting they should stay indoors for longer – as anxiety levels surge among elderly
Ros is quoted by the Daily Mail and MailonLine calling for lockdown easing following this crisis to be applied equally to all age adults with no ageism involved.
Tory plan to increase pension age to 75 ‘chilling and immoral’
Ros was quoted in the Independent newspaper explaining why raising State Pension Age to 75 would be immoral.
Raising pension age to 75 would be damaging and unjust – Ros Altmann
Ros wrote a comment piece for the Yorkshire Post explaining why policymakers should ignore calls for sudden sharp increases in state pension age. ( link to pdf )
Iain Duncan Smith’s think tank plan to hike pension age to 75 branded ‘immoral’ by ex Tory
Ros was quoted in the Daily Express newspaper, criticising the Centre for Social Justice for proposals to rapidly raise State Pension Age. ( link to pdf )
Chilling. Immoral. Iniquitous: Former pensions minister Baroness ROS ALTMANN gives her verdict on plans to raise the state pension age to 75
Ros wrote a Comment Article for the UK Daily Mail explaining the iniquity of increasing State Pension age rapidly to 70 and soon after to 75. ( link to pdf )