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People are working to an agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears age in Britain. The agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears of 70-74 year-old people who work has doubled in the past agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears. Around 10 per cent of British people in their early 70s are now working. It is the agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears figure since records began. The British government says just over a agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears of a million 70-74-year-olds agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears have jobs. In 2005, there were around 100,000 of them. The government said people are working to an agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears age and are deciding to retire later. A labour union spokesperson said the agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears for people working in their old age is because retirement pensions in Britain are becoming more agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears to live on. Many older people have to work and delay agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears to be able to survive.

Employment spokesman Frances O'Grady said: "The agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears decade has seen [big] changes in the labour market, with agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears more people working beyond retirement agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears. While there are agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears who enjoy remaining in work, many need to earn agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears cash because they cannot afford to retire." He added that: "We need decent jobs and pensions for all so that people can make a agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears choice about whether they remain in work." A spokesman for agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears businesses, John Allan, said more older people were starting their agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears businesses. He said: "More and more older people are [deciding on] a agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears change later in life and are starting up their own businesses, pursuing something they may have dreamed of doing for agecareercurrentlydecadedifficultextrafargenuinehighestlastnumberolderownplentyquarterreasonretirementsmallyears."