[moopling]

Although I agree that raising pension age disadvantages the poor, not for that reason. Life expectancy is not the same as age most people live to.

If you compare the percentage mortality between the ages 65-75 it's pretty equal (about 1%) both for the UK [1] and Glasgow [2]. Lower life expectancy looks to me due to much greater death rates in the 25-40 range.

Raising the pension age hurts the poor, not because the poor won't experience pension, but because they have no hope of an earlier retirement, and so you are forcing people to work when they are potentially unable to effectively do so.

[1] https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-kingdom/2019/

[2] https://www.understandingglasgow.com/indicators/population/t...