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Retirement ages?
Skive
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Just been sorting shit out for my pension scheme at work and got thinking.
Women on average live 7 years longer than men yet the retirement age is 60 for women and 65 for men? Is that right?
Women on average live 7 years longer than men yet the retirement age is 60 for women and 65 for men? Is that right?
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The latest information from National Statistics seems to cover 2004 - 2006 and suggests a life expectancy of 76.9 for men and 81.3 for women. About 4 years.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=168
Though this data doesn't take into account possible future changes in mortality, apparantly, according to the page looking at projected future improvements in mortality the life expectancy for a child born in 2006 is 88.1 years for a boy and 91.5 years for a girl.
Don't you get an early pension?
It probably won't be long before I have to give up the dream of having a job I'd actually enjoy.
The retirement age will have to change soon anyway. Pensions were only introduced becuase the few people who lived long enough for theirs would die within a few years of being old enough.
I wouldn't want to retire at 60 anyway. If anything I would rather be able to not work for 10 years if I had children so I could concentrate on them, then go back to work and retire when I'm about 75.
then how do you live?
you could call it my "dream" or my "ambition". please dont destroy it.
where theres a will theres a way!
No, i'm civilian staff so i get the same as people who work for local government.