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By Lars Mucklejohn Young homebuyers are at risk of falling into poverty in older age, a former pensions minister has warned, as fresh data suggests more than 1m new mortgages over the last three years were issued with end dates beyond the state pension age. In the final three months of 2023, 42 per cent of new mortgages, or 91,394, had an end date beyond the state pension age, a freedom of information request from ex-Liberal Democrat MP Steve Webb to the Bank of England revealed. This figure is up from 38 per cent during the same period in 2022 and 31 per cent in the last quarter of 2021. Webb…

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