TUC report: one in eight people are too ill or disabled to work to state pension age.

Around one in eight (12 per cent) men and women are forced to stop working before state pension age due to ill-health or disability, according to TUC research published today.

A TUC report, ‘Postponing the pension: are we all working longer?’, found that nearly half a million – 436,000 – workers who are within five years of state pension age have had to leave the workplace for medical reasons.