State Pension age rises are forcing later retirements but younger workers are failing to adjust
Media - July 9, 2025
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State pension eligibility age and retirement behaviour: evidence from the United Kingdom household longitudinal study
Journal Article - July 8, 2025
Policies to help people manage defined contribution pension wealth through retirement
Report, IFS Report Series - April 15, 2025
Reforms needed to help individuals make good use of their pension wealth throughout their retirement
Media - April 1, 2025
Government action needed to stop and reverse the proliferation of millions of small pension pots
Media - February 12, 2025
Small pension pots: problems and potential policy responses
Report, IFS Report Series - February 12, 2025
Written evidence submitted by Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, University of Essex (PPCM0023) [House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee. Pensioner poverty: challenges and mitigations inquiry]
Parliamentary Paper - February 5, 2025
Employees of Pakistani or Bangladeshi ethnic origin almost twice as likely to opt out of workplace pensions as other employees
Media - January 23, 2025
Ethnic differences in private pension participation after automatic enrolment
Report, IFS Report Series - January 23, 2025
Ethnic differences in retirement wealth accumulation in the UK
Research Paper, IFS Working Paper Series, 25/02 - January 23, 2025
Perfectly adequate?: Revisiting pensions adequacy 20 years after the Pensions Commission
Report - October 1, 2024
Adequacy of future retirement incomes: new evidence for private sector employees
Report, IFS Report Series, R331 - September 15, 2024
How does pensions automatic enrolment affect savings?
Media - August 8, 2024
The effect of retirement eligibility on mental health in the United Kingdom: heterogeneous effects by occupation
Journal Article - August 1, 2024
How does pension automatic enrolment affect savings? Evidence from a linked UK household panel
Report - August 1, 2024
Returns to work following retirement in Germany, Russia, and the United Kingdom
Journal Article - April 10, 2024
The dynamics of very deep poverty in the UK
Report - September 15, 2023
The importance of social and financial safety nets for people in very deep poverty
Report - September 15, 2023
Every little helps: should low earners be encouraged to save?
Report - August 15, 2023
Great analysis, flawed conclusions – no more pension taxes on low earners yet
Media - August 3, 2023
PLSA and PPI explore impact of extending AED
Media - August 3, 2023
Should I care or should I work? The impact of work on informal care
Journal Article - June 1, 2023
The gender gap in pension saving
Research Paper, IFS Report Series, R250 - March 15, 2023
Beyond the great retirement: understanding and tackling economic inactivity amongst the over 50s
Report - March 15, 2023
Data on private pension saving in UK surveys
Report, IFS Report Series, R251 - March 15, 2023
Independent review of the state pension age 2022: final report. Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 27 of the Pensions Act 2014
Report - March 15, 2023
Pensions: how women can make up for investment shortfalls
Media - March 8, 2023
When and why do employees change their pension saving?
Report, IFS Report Series, R246 - February 15, 2023
A blueprint for a better tax treatment of pensions
Research Paper, IFS Report Series, R240 - February 15, 2023
State Pension eligibility age and retirement behaviour: evidence from the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study
Research Paper, Netspar Discussion Papers, DP 010/2023‐001 - January 15, 2023
Caught in a gap: the role of government in enabling women to build better pensions
Report - January 15, 2023
Terminally ill people urge UK government to pay pensions early
Media - January 10, 2023