Over 80pc of retirees ‘working to meet basic needs’

More than 80 percent of senior citizens work for basic items, raising questions about adequacy of pension payouts and coverage of retirement benefits.

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) quarterly jobs report shows that 708,902 of 869,338 persons above the age of 60 were in active employment in December, representing 81.5 percent of the senior citizens in the country.

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