Default Retirement Age: Consultation

The government has asked businesses and individuals to submit evidence on the default retirement age, to feed into the review taking place next year.

The evidence requested includes:-

• the operation of the default retirement age in practice;
• the reasons that businesses use mandatory retirement ages;
• the impacts on businesses, individuals and the economy of raising or removing the default retirement age;
• the experience of businesses operating without a default retirement age;
• how could any costs of raising or removing the DRA be mitigated

More details here.