The report is here
www.resolutionfoundation.org/app/uploads/2017/02/IC-intra-gen.pdf
The summary is here
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/as-time-goes-by-shifting-incomes-and-inequality-between-and-within-generations/
It is by a "think-tank that works to improve the living standards of those in Britain on low to middle incomes".
If you don't have the time to have a critical look at the report, perhaps this "Reality Check: Are pensioners better off than workers?" by the BBC will help:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38957903
A few points from the BBC reality check
"The claim: Pensioners are on average £20 a week better off than working-age people.
Reality Check verdict: The calculation made by the Resolution Foundation is for household income after housing costs. Before housing costs are taken into account, working-age households still have higher incomes than pensioner households.
The figures referred to the "typical pensioner household", by which it meant the median, which is the household for which half of pensioner households have higher income and half of them have lower incomes.
In this case, a pensioner household is one in which at least one member is of pension age or older (65 for men, 64 for women) whether or not that person is working. There can also be working people in a pensioner household.
Taking income after housing costs makes a huge difference because pensioner households are more likely to own their own homes and to have relatively small or paid-off mortgages."
Also, the figures do not take account of people in care homes, which would be expected to increase housing costs for those of pension age.
The Resolution Foundation confirms in the report that before housing costs are paid, the median working-age household still has a higher income than the median pensioner household."
Hence it is the exponential rise in housing costs that is to "blame" for the headlines rather than any benefit from the meagre state pension being triple-locked.
Another factor to note is that the company pensions for the group studied will mostly have been from "final salary" schemes. That won't apply in future to more and more pensioners whose pension will range from the diminishing numbers left on full final salary schemes to those whose schemes closed at some stage in their working life.
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