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Unemployed Over 50s Are Two and a Half Times As Likely As Other Age Groups to Be Unemployed for At Least Two Years

Gender Pay Gap Increases With Age and Is At Its Widest For The Over 50s

Redundancies Amongst Those in Their 60s Increased by Nearly 300% in Just Three Months

The Number Of Unemployed Over 50s Has Increased By 33% In Just a Year

Workers Over 50 Made Up 45% of All Self-Employed Workers in 2019

Nearly 200,000 Workers Aged Over 50 Have Been Forced into Early Retirement Since The Pandemic Began

Over 65s See Biggest Drop in Hours Worked Since the Pandemic

Changes to women’s State Pension age have led to a sharp rise in unemployment for women aged between 60-64

Rest Less Warns that Rishi Sunak’s Youth Kickstart Scheme Could Leave At Least 660,000 Over 50s Dependent on Universal Credit for a Decade

Universal Credit Claims Amongst the Over 50s More Than Double Since March

The Number of Women Aged Between 60 and 64 In Work has Increased by 51% Since Changes to the State Pension Age Were Introduced in 2010

Number of Over 50s on a Zero-Hours Contracts Increases By 52% In Five Years

Insolvencies Amongst Women aged Over 65 Increase by 88% in a Decade

Over 65s Likely to Drive Half of All UK Employment Growth in the Next 10 Years

Employment Rate Gap Between 50-64 Year Olds and Under 50s In Work at its Narrowest Since Comparable Records Began

Gender Pay Gap at its Widest for Those in Their 50s: Average Salary of a Woman in Her 50s is 28% Lower Than a Man’s

Those in Their 50s are More Than Twice as Likely to Be Made Redundant Than Those in Their 40s

50-64 Year Old Workers Are 33% More Likely Than Their Younger Counterparts To be Unemployed for the Long-Term

82% of the growth in UK employment has come from the Over 50s, with Employment Rate 50-64 year olds at its highest rate since records began

Nearly One in Two (46%) of the Entire Self Employed Workforce in the UK is now Over the Age of 50

40% of the UK’s Part-Time Workforce Is Over the Age of 50

The number of over 70s still working has more than doubled in a decade to nearly half a million in 2019

Women Over the Age of 50 Have Driven 42% of UK Employment Growth in the Last 10 Years

One in Three (34%) People in the UK Plan to Work Beyond Their State Pension Age

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