MILLIONS of people could be forced to work to 71 before getting the state pension.
An ageing population and worker shortages is likely to force a radical rethink, a report warns.
But a former pensions minister said another big jump in the retirement age risked "plunging more people into poverty".
It also raises the prosect of more people dying before they can claim their state pension.
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