{"id":812700,"date":"2026-10-24T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812700\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T19:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:18:10","slug":"uk-government-responds-to-petition-to-lower-state-pension-age-to-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812700\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Government responds to petition to lower State Pension age to 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need to knowThe UK government has responded to a petition signed by over 88,000 people calling for the State Pension age to be lowered to 65<\/p>\n<p>13:19, 24 Oct 2026Updated 13:21, 24 Oct 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prime Minister Andy Burnham in Scotland earlier this month\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0_JS421439820.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Prime Minister Andy Burnham in Scotland earlier this month\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Prime Minister Andy Burnham in Scotland earlier this month<\/p>\n<p>Need to know: government rejects call to lower state pension age to 65A petition calling for the State Pension age to be lowered to 65 has received more than 88,000 signatures.The campaign, created by Michelle Gill, argues that many aged 65\u201367 face poor health, caring pressures and limited work options \u2014 and that lowering the age would &#8220;free up jobs for younger workers entering the labour market.&#8221;The government officially responded on 13 October, stating it has &#8220;no plans to reduce State Pension age to 65.&#8221;It cited rising life expectancy as justification, with ONS projections showing men aged 66 can expect to live a further 19.3 years and women a further 21.9 years by 2026.The State Pension age is currently 66 but is gradually rising to 67, with the increase beginning in April 2026 and completing in March 2028.If the petition reaches 100,000 signatures, it will be considered for a debate in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">READ THE FULL STORY: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/news\/cost-of-living\/andy-burnham-government-responds-petition-34774100\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Burnham government responds to petition to lower State Pension age to 65<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Need to knowThe UK government has responded to a petition signed by over 88,000 people calling for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19306,84,4176,4174,4175,2221,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-andy-burnham","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-state-pension","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}