'Personal welfare accounts' urged

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People should be made to pay into lifelong "personal welfare accounts" under reforms which would see them take more financial responsibility for their old age and National Insurance scrapped, a think-tank has argued.

The report from Civitas argued that National Insurance is "no longer fit for purpose" and everyone in work should be forced to save into a private pension to help shoulder the burden of rising old age costs.
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