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Retirement ages?

SkiveSkive Posts: 15,286 Skive's The Limit
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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?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Lovely, another 40 years of work. :(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It's getting closer as well -

    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.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Whowhere wrote: »
    Lovely, another 40 years of work. :(

    Don't you get an early pension?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Whowhere wrote: »
    Lovely, another 40 years of work. :(

    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.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    If women live for longer, shouldn't they have to work for longer as well? I bet you won't have many feminists arguing from this point of view!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I couldn't imagine working into my 50s or 60s! Hence want to work flat out, earn loadsa money, then in my 40s be able to afford to retire and then just do activities I enjoy rather than being forced to wake up at x, take the y to z... could always run me own business full-time I know but there's stress with that too.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i dont belive in work. money has no appeal to me.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mort of life wrote: »
    i dont belive in work. money has no appeal to me.

    then how do you live?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    so far, im 16. i dont want a job, i want some land and i'll try from there. if it all goes tits up, there isnt much i can do.

    you could call it my "dream" or my "ambition". please dont destroy it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    J wrote: »
    How do you intend to aquire this land with no money?

    BTW: My mum owns some land in Spain which she isn't using if your interested? :p

    All I want is a £300,000 yacht and a fishing rod to go off galavanting around the med in. QUOTE]

    land eh? :chin: spain eh?

    failing that i'll try being a nomad or something. some one told me theres some space in northern russia.

    youve got a good idea, sell up and go! take it easy! :thumb:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    fruit eh? :chin: like on trees eh? :chin:

    where theres a will theres a way!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Flashman's Ghost wrote: »
    Don't you get an early pension?


    No, i'm civilian staff so i get the same as people who work for local government.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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