... by the late 1990s there was growing concern about very high rates of pensioner poverty, with a third of pensioners living below the official poverty line (DWP, 2014). One consequence of this was a greater level of investigation by the government, revealing now quite familiar but then quite alarming new...

... at: malcolm.small@tisa.uk.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Older Age Retirement Entrepreneur Working lives Pensions Elderly people Entrepreneurialism In 1948, when the Basic State Pension as we have it today was first introduced, average male life expectancy was just 66...