Tens of thousands of over-65s have returned to work or have put off retirement in recent months, reversing the pandemic trend of older people leaving the workforce.
Experts say a net 174,000 increase in older people in work may indicate that retirees have returned to the labour market as inflation at a 40-year high puts pressure on their pensions.
About half a million workers, mostly the over-50s, left the workforce during the pandemic. Many went into early retirement, while others left owing to long-term illness. However, in a partial reversal of that trend, there were 1,468,000 over-65s in work in the three months to June, up from 1,294,000 in the first quarter of the year, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The official
