Pension age

[MarillionFan]

Oooooooooo. Get her.

[shaunbhoy]

millions of younger people who'll have to work a long time to subsidize baby boomers who've had plenty of opportunity during long growth periods to provide for themselves.

[victormeldrew mode]
Utter tosh. The thing about the baby boomers is that most of them got off their spotty arses and made things happen for themselves. They went out and got jobs as soon as they were old enough. They saved for things they wanted rather than running up huge bills on instant credit, because back then there was nobody handing out easy loans and endless credit.
They have paid into the system all of their extensive working lives, money which has provided a pension for their parents' generation. The generation that won two world wars for us.
And now that they are approaching their retirement years they are having to not only support ageing parents in many cases, they are also having to wipe the backsides of brigades of feckless "want-it-all-now" generation children that struggle to stand on their own two feet.
Honestly, many of this younger mob really need to take a long hard look at themselves. They need to put a bit more effort into finding and staying in work, and a lot less effort into endlessly bitching on about notional freebies they somehow seem to feel they should be entitled to for no obvious fooking reason!!!
Someone needs to explain to them they are not "entitled" to own a house just because they would like to own one.
[/victormeldrew mode]

[Fred Bloggs]

I am 39. I don't believe there'll be any money to pay me a state pension if Europe's governments carry on prevaricating. That simply can't be fair.

I quite agree.

[dang65]

Seems to me that if you can afford to retire early on your own savings then there's nothing to stop you anyway, and if you can't afford to retire on your own savings then you're probably going to want to keep working for as long as possible anyway, for both financial and sanity reasons. Can't be much fun to retire at 60 with nothing but a basic state pension stretching out for years ahead of you.

[RSoles]

Typical bloody govermin though. It's not their fault for running a ponzi scheme, oh no,
it's all caused by oldies, all their fault for growing old.
What's next, state sponsored Granny bashing?

[Mich the Tester]

Serves you right. Over there milking the European Job market.

Yeah, bloody economic migrant and all that.

[shaunbhoy]

I am 39. I don't believe there'll be any money to pay me a state pension if Europe's governments carry on prevaricating. That simply can't be fair.

Serves you right. Over there milking the European Job market.

[Mich the Tester]

It is a serious issue. Mrs Bloggs is 50. Her state retirement age has gone from 60 to 67! That simply cannot be fair.

I am 39. I don't believe there'll be any money to pay me a state pension if Europe's governments carry on prevaricating. That simply can't be fair.

[Fred Bloggs]

It is a serious issue. Mrs Bloggs is 50. Her state retirement age has gone from 60 to 67! That simply cannot be fair.

[Mich the Tester]

Have the balls to say, its going up, sorry but we should of done this decades ago, but we have to do it now!

Yep, precisely. The longer it's delayed the longer people will have to work, and the more revenues (tax and NI) the government will need from everyone.

[vetran]

moan moan, its not fair I will lose some pension because I'm a woman! why don't you blokes complain, oh yes you have spent the last 30 years waiting 5 years longer you are used to it.

C.M.D.
Have the balls to say, its going up, sorry but we should of done this decades ago, but we have to do it now!

[Churchill]

More political whining, procrastination and prevaricating about pension age here, talking about it rising to 67 or 66 in umpteen years time. Personally I think that the best way to do this is to say 'right then, as of tomorrow morning, pension age rises by 6 months'. It would start saving large amounts of money right now, and would not be so unfair to millions of younger people who'll have to work a long time to subsidize baby boomers who've had plenty of opportunity during long growth periods to provide for themselves.

BBC News - Ministers delay state pension rise to 66 to help women

Gives a few more of 'em chance to "pop off" before they can claim their pension though, don't it

[Mich the Tester]

More political whining, procrastination and prevaricating about pension age here, talking about it rising to 67 or 66 in umpteen years time. Personally I think that the best way to do this is to say 'right then, as of tomorrow morning, pension age rises by 6 months'. It would start saving large amounts of money right now, and would not be so unfair to millions of younger people who'll have to work a long time to subsidize baby boomers who've had plenty of opportunity during long growth periods to provide for themselves.

BBC News - Ministers delay state pension rise to 66 to help women