More recently, the number of people of pensionable age who are at work has also risen.

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In America, for example, the normal pensionable age, fixed at 65 in 1935, is due to rise to 67.

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Raising the pensionable age would therefore let the government take Lord Turner's second step: making the state pension more generous.

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Italy's unique years-in-work system of calculating pensionable age is to be phased out, and the statutory retirement age will be pushed back.

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For example, 19% of the region's population is over pensionable age, and poverty among pensioners in this region is the second highest in England.

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There are even suggestions of raising the pensionable age to 67.

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As such, it attracts a significant number of retirees: nearly a third of the population is of pensionable age, ranking the constituency 6th in England and Wales.

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It was the lifting of the pensionable age and complicated changes to the way that pension entitlements are earned that was at the centre of the industrial dispute.

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In 1968 over one third of the total adult population of the UK had no natural teeth, and only a small number of people of pensionable age had any teeth at all.

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But a survey carried out in 1998 showed that only 13% of adults had no natural teeth - and over half those of pensionable age retained at least some of their natural teeth.

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