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The cost of the age pension to taxpayers will fall even as more than 9 million people reach retirement age over the next 40 years, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will reveal on Wednesday amid accusations that the next election will be an existential fight for the future of superannuation.

As the Liberal Party signalled it was looking at allowing young people to access their super to get out of the rental market, Chalmers will argue Australia is defying a global trend in age pension cost blowouts because of the…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU