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Pension Talk – another taboo smashed!

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Rose Rouse
Nov 11, 2025
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Talking about pensions – my own or other people’s – is not something I do. I’m 72 with a State Pension and I still work a couple of days a week too. Maybe it’s the era that I come from – hippie/punk. We were fiercely independent and anti-establishment. Pensions fell into the latter category as planning for the future was uncool. …

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