{"id":220948,"date":"2025-10-17T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/220948\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:42:08","slug":"should-the-state-pension-age-be-lowered-vote-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/220948\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the state pension age be lowered? Vote now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/money\/state-pension-age-dwp-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">State pension reform<\/a> is on the agenda as retirement experts are urging the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to review the mechanism used to determine retirement age changes.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the state pension is 66 years old and is expected to rise to 67 for thousands as soon as next year but many want to see the threshold at which someone is eligible to claim payments brought down.<\/p>\n<p>Scrutiny over the state pension comes over growing concerns regarding the triple lock&#8217;s affordability and wider conversations surrounding intergenerational fairness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"e7019\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"84a3b0c3782ee31b50d304f1b7a62256\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%205616%203744'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/happy-pensioners.jpg\" width=\"5616\" height=\"3744\" alt=\"Happy pensioners\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Should the state pension age be lowered? <\/p>\n<p> | GETTY<\/p>\n<p>Please write at least 4 paragraphs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State pension reform is on the agenda as retirement experts are urging the Department for Work and Pensions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,16884,186,187,1721,4363,184,185,9876],"class_list":{"0":"post-220948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-dwp","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-money","14":"tag-opinion","15":"tag-pensions","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-personalfinance","18":"tag-state-pension"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}