This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We understand that you want the Government to reduce the pension age, but it's not clear when you want people to be able to access the state pension, and in what circumstances.

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Reduce the state pension age to 60 to better support the elderly: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302965

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