As the baby-boomers hit retirement age, the fiscal strain will grow.

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Most of the criticism of a proposed two-year age hike has focused on the flawed fiscal rationale.

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This worsens the fiscal crisis and will create social crisis in many locales as populations age and constituencies fight for their piece of the shrinking pie.

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The government has asked the committee to examine the proposals before the finalised bill is introduced - and their first group of witnesses include Age UK, Carers UK, the TUC, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Pensions Policy Institute, former government pensions policy adviser Dr Ros Altmann, former Labour minister Baroness Hollis of Heigham and Professor Jay Ginn (Institute of Gerontology, King's College London), Women's Budget Group.

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In 2009, at age 46, the married father of two opened his own negotiating service, called Fiscal Resolutions.

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