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Re: Petition to reverse state pension age.... please sign!
The problem is people are living longer through better diet and better medical care. The Tory Govt are addressing both these issues by forcing people into Food banks so their diet worsens and flogging off the NHS so private companies can ensure people don't get as good medical treatment and die earlier. Extending the terms of working slavery is just because the Govt can't afford to pay Pensions from 60 and 65 anymore. I feel sorry for those caught in the trap of having to work longer for the their pension even though you only need 30 years contributions to get a full pension ! In the future some people will work from 16 to 70...that's 54 years...30 of which gets them a Pension, 24 years you pay in for nothing !
As an aside, the new OAP of £140 pw comes in 2016, for everybody...the arguement is that it will save having to administer the old scheme with added years etc..but the daft thing is it only applies to new retirees, so the other 12m pensioners will still have to be 'administered' for their old pension scheme until they finally die off...which could be another 30+ years. So they will have 2 states schemes to administer, with pre 2016 pensioners on £108pw and post 2016 pensioners on £140pw. This is sheer lunacy and doesn't save anything.
Of course it opens up the market for the private pension companies to step in and run the supplementary pension schemes people will need to bring their £140pw pensions up to a 'living pension' which needs to be about £280pw for a comfortable exisitence and to pay the every increasing gas and electric bills as you spend more and more time at home all day as you get older.
The whole idea is totally cock-eyed...we need jobs for young families, not 70 year olds.. The French have the right idea, they take to the streets and protest ! We Brits just sit back and take it, so in the end I guess it's up to us to get on the streets, sign petitions, lobby our MP's and get active...
The problem is people are living longer through better diet and better medical care. The Tory Govt are addressing both these issues by forcing people into Food banks so their diet worsens and flogging off the NHS so private companies can ensure people don't get as good medical treatment and die earlier. Extending the terms of working slavery is just because the Govt can't afford to pay Pensions from 60 and 65 anymore. I feel sorry for those caught in the trap of having to work longer for the their pension even though you only need 30 years contributions to get a full pension ! In the future some people will work from 16 to 70...that's 54 years...30 of which gets them a Pension, 24 years you pay in for nothing !
As an aside, the new OAP of £140 pw comes in 2016, for everybody...the arguement is that it will save having to administer the old scheme with added years etc..but the daft thing is it only applies to new retirees, so the other 12m pensioners will still have to be 'administered' for their old pension scheme until they finally die off...which could be another 30+ years. So they will have 2 states schemes to administer, with pre 2016 pensioners on £108pw and post 2016 pensioners on £140pw. This is sheer lunacy and doesn't save anything.
Of course it opens up the market for the private pension companies to step in and run the supplementary pension schemes people will need to bring their £140pw pensions up to a 'living pension' which needs to be about £280pw for a comfortable exisitence and to pay the every increasing gas and electric bills as you spend more and more time at home all day as you get older.
The whole idea is totally cock-eyed...we need jobs for young families, not 70 year olds.. The French have the right idea, they take to the streets and protest ! We Brits just sit back and take it, so in the end I guess it's up to us to get on the streets, sign petitions, lobby our MP's and get active...
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