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Recommendation 5
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The government must work towards a sufficiently clear adequacy objective to guide its future decisions...
Recommendation
The government must work towards a sufficiently clear adequacy objective to guide its future decisions on State Pensions and state entitlements. It should say whether a State Pension that tries to avoid poverty but does not necessarily deliver adequacy, represents the extent of its ambitions. (Recommendation, Paragraph 29) Increase in the State Pension age