Fifth 'expect to work until 70'

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File photo dated 03/05/10 of two women walking along the beach in Bournemouth as one in 12 people planning to retire this year will still be paying off their mortgage. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday January 24, 2014. Prudential, which carries out research each year to gauge the state of people's finances as they approach retirement, found that one in six (17%) people ending their working lives in 2014 will still be burdened with some form of debt, including mortgages, credit cards or personal loans. Some 8% of those planning to retire in 2014 said they still have not fully paid off their mortgage and around 10% still have credit card debt piled up. On average, those who still have some form of mortgage and/or non-mortgage debt owe ?24,800, although this figure is around one fifth (21%) lower than the typical debt in 2013 of ?31,200, researchers found. Across Britain, Scotland had the highest rate of people retiring this year with debts outstanding. Nearly one quarter (24%) of people retiring in 2014 there said they would have some form of debt. See PA story MONEY Retire. Photo credit should read: Chris Ison/PA Wire

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%One in five Britons thinks they will be working until they are at least 70 years old - making them almost twice as likely to have this expectation as workers across Europe - according to a new global report.

Some 19% of Britons predict they will work into their eighth decade of life, compared with an average of 12% of workers in Europe generally, according to a survey of more than 30,000 people in 60 countries by market research company Nielsen.

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