Thats why we are reforming the pension system to make it sustainable for the long term, making sure people can look forward to a decent state pension when they retire, and helping millions save into a workplace pension, many for the first time.
Experts said the rise in those aged over 100 years old the fastest growing age group has profound social, economic and financial implications.
Taxpayers face an increasing bill to meet the pension and health care costs of the elderly.
Individuals will have to work later, sell their assets and put more money aside throughout their lives to fund retirements that could last more than 30 years.
Ministers have considered linking the state pension age to life expectancy which could see future generations working into their seventies.
Ros Altmann, the director-general of the Saga Group, said: Pension funds were never designed to cater for lots of people living to 100. We have got more and more people who are going to live longer with much less money and something has to be done about it.
Official research has also found that most Britons expect to die earlier than is likely to be the case.
In 1981, there were 2,600 centenarians but this is forecast to rise to more than 280,000 by 2050.
There has already been a 70 per cent rise in people living to 100 since 2000, with six women to every man in this age group.
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