UK Government urged to protect State Pension and cut National Insurance for older workers

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Campaigners have presented Chancellor Rachel Reeves with a plan to cut National Insurance on older workers to swell the workforce and boost growth. It is one of a number of proposals put forward by Later Life Ambitions (LLA), a campaign group that represents over 250,000 older people. ‌

LLA launched the ‘Budget for Later Life’ on October 28 which includes demands to protect the State Pension Triple Lock, guaranteeing a minimum income for older people, and changes to National Insurance to incentivise keeping experience in the workforce and to narrow the yawning gender pensions gap in the coming years. ‌

Campaigners say there is growing evidence of widespread age discrimination in the workforce according to the CIPD, particularly affecting individuals in their 50s and 6