FORMER Ilkley Grammar School student Dr Anna Dixon has been awarded an MBE for services to wellbeing in later life in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. Now Chief Executive of the Centre for Ageing Better, she led Ageing Better’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing expert advice and evidence to government and others to support responsive policy making, with a key focus on the growing number of older workers at risk of falling out of work prematurely before they can afford to retire. Anna has made a significant contribution to the government’s strategic focus on ageing in particular through support for the Industrial Strategy Ageing Grand Challenge.
But widespread age discrimination in the workplace continues to make it more difficult for otherwise talented individuals to find new employment in their 60s. Older workers are less likely to receive workplace training than their younger counterparts and, once made redundant, are significantly more likely to find themselves in long-term unemployment.
The report highlighted that in the last recession ten years ago women could retire at the age of 60 and receive a state pension.
This year the state pension age increased to 66 for both men and women, so someone being made redundant at the age of 60 today still has six years to work before they can receive it.
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