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The past few days have seen a new burst of concerns about pensions.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is under pressure to ditch the triple lock , whereby the state pension is increased by whichever is highest: inflation, average earnings, or 2.5 per cent.

Standard Life has just done a survey that shows that half of workers expect to carry on in some form of job beyond official retirement age .

Research from Aegon UK shows that an even higher proportion of people expect to go on working, making retirement a gradual process rather than a sudden stop.

And behind all this are the rumours that one way

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