The answer was in the Budget a few years ago when Labour was in, and when the lib dem/conservative got in their kept it the same as both sides agreed to keep it going. "The oap's have free reign to go where their like on buses in this country as their had to put up what their went through during the war." but in the future it will be phased out as the government is saying that people are lasting longer than their did in the olden days. pension age goes up every year, when I get older the pension age will start when im in my 70's if I last that long, anybody under 20 years of age at present, wont get to the state pension age until their early 80's. The government wants the public to work until their die and not go on pension when their retire.