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particularly young people in their twenties, are
going to have to plan for their own retirement
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HE BODY OF THE ESSAY

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pension so that they can live a decent life without
fear of poverty. They will no longer be able to look to
the State to provide adequate provision for their old
age. The State, it seems, is going to opt out well
before they reach the grave.
The key sentence of the paragraph is the first sentence. It makes the
point about the expectations raised by the welfare state.
That point is developed in sentences two, three, four, five and six by
emphasising the difficulties caused by changing life spans, the problems
that causes and the implications for young people. The last sentence acts
as a kind of summary and echoes the first sentence of the paragraph.