Submitted by Denver Johnson on Monday 24th November 2025
Published on Monday 12th January 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Sunday 12th July 2026
Current Signatures: 80
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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2022 ~ 2024 ~ aged ~ appears ~ Concern ~ concerns ~ Decent ~ For 2022 ~ level ~ Pandemic ~ Pensions ~ policy decisions ~ Population ~ Pre-pandemic ~ society ~ state pension ~ Years
Ban any government claims that people are increasingly living longer
We ask the government to ban the use of the claim that longevity is constantly on the increase in policy decisions, official statements and documents. The ONS's most recent data for 2022-2024, shows it was at the same level for females as 2017-2019, pre-pandemic, and below that level for males.
The claim appears in a response to one of our petitions (728656) calling for a decent state pension from an attainable age: "As longevity has increased and our society aged...". We are concerned it could be used in upcoming policy decisions and reports. We see this issue as literally a matter of life and death, for all of the population. We believe this is a fallacy that has been pedalled as a fact, for too many years.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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