{"id":2439,"date":"2017-08-02T10:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T09:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2017-08-02T10:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T09:32:42","slug":"older-women-poorer-after-pension-age-change-says-ifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2017\/08\/02\/older-women-poorer-after-pension-age-change-says-ifs\/","title":{"rendered":"Older women poorer after pension age change, says IFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2440 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/08\/97005235_gettyimages-173705961-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/08\/97005235_gettyimages-173705961-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/08\/97005235_gettyimages-173705961-3.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">More than a million women in their early 60s have become poorer as a result of delays to their state pensions, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that, on average, household income of women aged between 60 and 62 was now \u00a332 a week lower.<\/p>\n<p>As a result poverty rates among that group have risen sharply, it said.<\/p>\n<p>But the IFS also said the savings, and extra tax from working women, meant the state was \u00a35.1bn a year better off. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-40791216\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a million women in their early 60s have become poorer as a result of delays to their state pensions, according to a new study. Researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}