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The bulk of my career was as an advice worker, specialising in debt, housing and energy advice. Some years ago I worked with a client in her late 50s who had been a hospital cleaner.
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The bulk of my career was as an advice worker, specialising in debt, housing and energy advice.
Some years ago I worked with a client in her late 50s who had been a hospital cleaner.
She had expected to retire earlier, but the changes to women's state pension age meant that she faced several more years before retirement.
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The bulk of my career was as an advice worker, specialising in debt, housing and energy advice. Some years ago I worked with a client in her late 50s who had been a hospital cleaner. She had expected to retire earlier, but the changes to women's state pension age meant that she faced several more years before retirement.
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- She could no longer do the physical work of cleaning, yet starting a new career while managing her physical health seemed a daunting prospect.
- There should be provision for people who find themselves out of work when they approach state pension age, writes Peter Wade I am now in my 61st year, haven't worked for more than two years and have stopped...
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