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  • Women’s State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions’ communication of changes

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

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
    • Updated:
  • Planning and preparing for later life: social survey feasibility study

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

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: DWP ad hoc research
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Views on the ageing society: survey of older people

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

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Attitudes to working in later life: British Social Attitudes 2015

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

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: DWP ad hoc research
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Understanding digital engagement in later life

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

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Employer attitudes to fuller working lives

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

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: DWP ad hoc research
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • A new vision for older workers: retain, retrain, recruit

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

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Pensions portfolio: automatic enrolment communications tracking research, November 2013

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

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Communications and customer insight research
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Pensions portfolio: communications tracking research, July 2013

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

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Communications and customer insight research
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Graphs showing older worker employment nationally and by sector

    Graphs showing older worker employment nationally and by sector.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Older Workers Statistical Information Booklet: quarter 2, 2012

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

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Older workers statistical information booklet
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Quantitative evaluation of the Pension Credit Payment Study (RR796)

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

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: DWP research reports
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Review of 50 Plus Works good-practice guide and toolkit: in-house research no. 8

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

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: DWP research reports
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Active at 60: final report of local evaluation research (RR786)

    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.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: DWP research reports
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Investigating the triggers into claiming Pension Credit (RR785)

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

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: DWP research reports
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Attitudes to age in Britain 2010/11: in-house research no. 7

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

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: DWP research reports
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Pensions and later life: communications research March 2011

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

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Communications and customer insight research
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Older Workers Statistical Information Booklet: quarter 2, 2011

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

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Older workers statistical information booklet
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Older Workers Statistical Information Booklet: quarter 2, 2010

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

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Older workers statistical information booklet
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated:
  • Attitudes towards the Pensions Advisory Service website: working paper no. 80

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

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: DWP ad hoc research
    • Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
    • Updated: