Around that time the US, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Spain will all be increasing pension ages to 67, and Ireland's pension age will be 68," she said.
Most first generation nuclear experts have retired or are retiring soon, although there are discussions ongoing to increase pension age in most EU countries.
Added to attacks on public sector pensions – including increased contributions and increased pension age – it is hard to see how the government can justifiably argue that senior public servants are being rewarded appropriately and fairly.
Can the increasing number of retirees per worker be stopped by immigration or increasing fertility or will we need to increase pension age instead?
Which implies big cuts to jobless and disability benefits, given the prime minister made clear yesterday that pensions would be protected in quantum - although the government retains the lever of increasing the age at which pensions are payable (as the chancellor said, increasing the pension age yields huge savings).
Further changes in 2009, began the process of increasing the pension age to 67 by 2023.
So far, the public response has been resounding and clear: Only 9percentt of Russians approve of increasing the pension age.
Increasing the pension age for all officers to 60. Officers currently retire after 30 years of service from the age of 50.
Rather than just considering increasing the pension age, the government could consider having a range of ages, instead of one stark chronological cutoff.
So the first essential part of radical reform should be to sort out this situation, and it is not as simple as increasing the pension age.
Dr Yasuyoshi Ouchi, the former chairman of the Japan Geriatrics Society, said the proposal was not meant to give political cover for increasing the pension age.
