Google AI Fact Check: No, Australia’s Pension Age Is Not Rising to 68 in November 2025
Sydney — 18 November 2025 A wave of alarming headlines and viral posts has convinced many Australians that the Age Pension age is about to jump from 67 to 68 as early as November 2025, threatening carefully laid retirement plans. Those claims are wrong. Today, Google has been forced to correct its own AI-powered search results after they repeated a false story about a sudden pension age hike, prompting fresh warnings from the Australian government and retirement experts to ignore clickbait and rely on official sources instead. 9News+1 At the same time, a cluster of SEO-heavy “news” articles – including