The Directorate for Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES) has published a new study that provides an overview of people’s experiences of social security benefits as they approach retirement age.
Social security benefits: more than one in three people receiving benefits whilst in work continue to do so after retirement
Reference Studies and Results No. 1328
Presentation
Key Results
- The proportion of people receiving minimum social benefits falls as they reach retirement age, dropping from 11 per cent at age 61 to 5.5 per cent at age 70
- Pensions do not guarantee an end to reliance on social security benefits: more than one in three former recipients are still receiving them after reaching the statutory retirement age
- An automatic increase in the number of people receiving minimum social benefits linked to the 2010 pension reform
Method and Data
This study is based on a new statistical database, created by cross-referencing data from the cross-scheme sample of pensioners (EIR) and the DREES’s national cross-scheme sample of recipients of income-related supplements and social security benefits (ENIACRAMS) maintained by the DREES.
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