Call to lower pension age for physical jobs
Daily Record|July 31, 2023
MP warns of a 'destitute generation’
ANDREW QUINN
Call to lower pension age for physical jobs

THE state pension age should be reduced for construction workers as the Tories prepare to make people work past 65, it's been claimed.

The SNP are set to demand any rise of the state pension age to 68 should be halted with the age reduced for those in manual jobs.

Midlothian MP Owen Thompson says those with physically demanding jobs face a "higher likelihood of developing health problems".

This story is from the July 31, 2023 edition of Daily Record.

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