{"id":4138,"date":"2018-11-28T09:28:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T09:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:13:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:13:36","slug":"state-pension-age-rises-causing-huge-uncertainty-for-older-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/11\/28\/state-pension-age-rises-causing-huge-uncertainty-for-older-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"State pension age rises causing huge uncertainty for older workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/t-v\/vickerstaff-sarah.html\">Professor Sarah Vickerstaff<\/a> uncovers numerous issues being caused by the rising state pension age.<\/p>\n<p>The alignment of state pension ages for women and men \u2013 while in some senses a milestone for gender equality \u2013 has created very real difficulties for those whose who will now not receive their State Pension when they had originally expected to.<\/p>\n<p>As a result many older workers, particularly women, are living increasingly precarious lives because they are being forced to remain working in physically demanding and sometimes insecure jobs.<\/p>\n<p>For further information see<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/20259\/state-pension-age-increase-causing-huge-uncertainty-for-older-workers-especially-females\">University&#8217;s News Centre<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the paper &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/ageing-and-society\/article\/understanding-older-worker-precarity-the-intersecting-domains-of-jobs-households-and-the-welfare-state\/8E92B858EA4423C4930FCBCD15F2F1BD\">Understanding older worker precarity: the intersecting domains of jobs, households and the welfare state<\/a>&#8216;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research involving Professor Sarah Vickerstaff uncovers numerous issues being caused by the rising state pension age. The alignment of state pension ages for women and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/11\/28\/state-pension-age-rises-causing-huge-uncertainty-for-older-workers\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":3498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,124,70,139988],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}