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  • The Ombudsman's report highlights failings in the way the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) communicated changes to women’s State Pension age.

  • This report presents the findings of a feasibility study into how DWP can better understand the ways people plan and prepare for later life.

  • A survey of older people asking for their views on issues that arise from people living longer.

  • This report outlines the headline findings from the British Social Attitudes Survey 2015 on the Fuller Working Lives policy.

  • A University of Manchester report on use of the internet and digital technologies among older people and its relationship to wellbeing.

  • This report explores the attitudes of employers to retaining, retraining and recruiting workers aged 50 or over.

  • Dr Ros Altmann’s findings and recommendations for improving the working lives of Britain’s over 50s.

  • Findings of research to track attitudes and behaviours in relation to pensions and later life and automatic enrolment, November 2013.

  • Findings of research to track attitudes and behaviours in relation to pensions and later life and automatic enrolment, July 2013.

  • Graphs showing older worker employment nationally and by sector.

  • The annual publication of data about older workers' employment position and labour market participation in the UK.

  • Analysis by Lucy Radford of a study that saw individuals paid their estimated Pension Credit entitlement without them having first claimed.

  • Qualitative study involving frontline staff at DWP provider organisations and JobCentre Plus offices to assess the usefulness of the 50 Plus Works website.

  • An evaluation of 2 local authority areas that were a part of a pilot to explore how smart technology can help deliver services to older people.

  • Findings of research into the triggers for Pension Credit claims, to better understand how to deliver the benefit to the most vulnerable customers

  • A study of the attitudes to ageing in Britain and the socio-demographic variables associated with those attitudes.

  • Research to track the success of communications to influence attitudes and behaviours in relation to pensions and later life.

  • Data on the position of older people in the labour market between April and June 2011.

  • Presents labour market data focusing on older workers (aged 50 to 64).

  • Findings of user testing on the website that took place in 2010.