The recommendations of the Hutton Report will protect workers and pensioners, but we must come to terms with retiring later

Abstract

Many questions and concerns have arisen from the publication of the Hutton Report on public sector pensions. Here, Nicholas Barr provides an essential question and answer toolkit for assessing the recommendations of the Hutton Report, concluding that the move to career-average pensions will help many workers, and that for pensions to remain sustainable we will all have to wait longer until we are able to retire