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Recession `could lead to financial problems for retirees`

27/05/2009

Retirees could be left facing financial difficulties - potentially including debt problems - as a result of the economic downturn, it has been suggested.

According to Age Concern and Help the Aged, 28 per cent of people over 50 recently polled reported concerns that their age would see them forced out of their job if their employer had to make redundancies.

Meanwhile, 47 per cent said they were less confident than they had been six months earlier that their pensions and savings would provide them with a comfortable standard of living in retirement.

Michelle Mitchell, charity director for Age Concern and Help the Aged, said: "These figures paint an extremely bleak picture for millions of over-50s whose working lives are at risk of being cut short by the recession."

She added that for many over-50s, one of the legacies of the recession will be a retirement which is "blighted by poverty".

Recently, Key Retirement Solutions released figures which suggested that people aged between 65 and 69 have average credit card debt of £9,068, the Mirror reported.

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