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What is the British retirement age? Research shows it could go up to 71

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The retirement age could rise to 71 by 2050 for middle-aged workers in the UK, according to experts. 

Research by the International Longevity Centre into the impact of growing and falling birthrates on the suggested the current UK age would not be enough and that anyone born after April 1970 may have to

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