Think Tank: UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71
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danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Wait, you’re 35? It feels like you’ve been here at least 20 years! Were you 12 when you joined?
I’m sorry for teaching you all those swears!
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
36, I joined when I was 15 and I already knew the swearsWait, you’re 35? It feels like you’ve been here at least 20 years! Were you 12 when you joined?
I’m sorry for teaching you all those swears!
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Exactly; they're 'rolling the pitch' for even more pain for working people.
Also, all the rich people who sit down all day at work will have their own pensions and retire early while all the people who do manual jobs will rely on the non existent state pension and their pitiful People’s Pension and retire late. It doesn’t seem quite fair to me.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
That's class-war, right there
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
have no private pensions....have 6 years till retirement age but i am fully expecting to have to carry on working if i still physically can do it....am starting to get niggles now.....
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Yes this is correct, but isn’t really the point is it.
Same, minus a few from both numbers.36, I joined when I was 15 and I already knew the swears
Think I've always just assumed that if I don't die before I reach state pension age, it'll either be about 80 by then or have been replaced with a rebranded workhouse run by serco / soylent green factory.
Numbers
an ting!
There's 2 of us?
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
I 100% couldn't do my job at 71. No way. It's already taking a physical toll at 46. What are they expecting people who have had manual labour jobs all their lives to do? Actually I know the answer to this, it's work til you literally drop isn't it.
We've got a regular DPD delivery driver who is retiring next year. I know this because every time he delivers us something he leaves with a cheery '264 days to go!' or whatever the current time is. He is literally counting the hours til he can retire, because it's fucking hard work running up and down the stairs of tenement flats delivering wardrobes and lugging boxes of chains and bundles of tyres into bike shops. Seventy fucking one?
Numbers
an ting!
How much does this remind you/one of William
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Yeah. I know. It's so shit isn't it.How much does this remind you/one of William
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
And doesn't that argument mean you shouldn't raise the state pension age? It'll mean more people on unemployment and disability benefits, and that costs a lot more to administer than a pension. "More people won't be able to work" doesn't really lead to "we will make more people work" in any logical way.
And yes, I can't imagine my GF, an NHS care worker, doing her job at the age of 70, and it's a little late to retrain - you'd never recoup your training costs.
Stupid people who basically want to punish the poor. That's all it is, really.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Think I've six more years to go before I've paid in enough for the full pension. I already have to wait till I'm 67 for that, and I'm already of the view the fucking thing won't exist when I get to that age
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
Struggling to think of anyone in my family who's lived to 71
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
You're right; these cunts subscribe to the useless mouths ethos; we're literally no use to them once we're fucked.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I think we all know to whom the useless mouths really belong
Larry O'Hara
Well-Known Member
Maybe you shouldn’t have joined the Foreign Legion?We should be smashing things up like the French did.
Havw spent all morning in a doom spiral imagining ways I might die whilst at work.
Larry O'Hara
Well-Known Member
Having worked in a prison I can assure you it isnt quite like thatI've been saying it for years, I'll rob a bank or something when I'm 70 or so and 'retire' to jail where bed, board and healthcare is all free.
Unless something better comes up, that's still the plan
mojo pixy
○-<{[°_°]}>-○
It's marginally better than starving to death in a park.
Plus there's always the chance we might actually get away with it - in which case, south America with a suitcase full of £100 notes.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
You'll have to hope they issue £100 notes and that you haven't got away with a shed load of monopoly money
Larry O'Hara
Well-Known Member
I think its called capitalism…
bcuster
Well-Known Member
actually, i should've said unless you retire at 71, not until. you're stuck with the lower benefit payment for life unless you retire at 71
mojo pixy
○-<{[°_°]}>-○
By the time I'm 70 it'll probably be 1000Eurominbi notes.
Or shiny pebbles, but in that case retirement may well be a non problem.
PTK
Paul Kegan
It's better than feudalism. . .
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