‘Work until we die?’ Independent readers outraged over retirement age review

LIZ KANALL’s announcement of a new investigation of the state’s retirement age received a strong response from readers and elderly workers and retirees, especially than both unfair and unrealistic reforms.

Many had a problem with the idea of raising the age of retirement again, and especially he did not take into account the physical decline among handbook workers.

73 -year -old retired after a lifetime of physical labor 73 -year -old, “My knees are packaged,” he said. “There is no way to continue doing what I used to do.”

Several readers questioned the claim that Ms. Kendall should pay attention to future pensioners and save more, many of them are an option for only rich or disposable income.

A reiterating theme was disappointed in a system that was seen to punish those who do everything right ”.

“He told me to retire without money,” another reader said from his father’s bitter advice, “Because then you get everything.”

A few commentators looked at the future and looked at the future, claiming that the government should investigate policies such as basic income to address the long -term effects of inequality.

Here is what you have to say:

Pensioners don’t evacuate the system

Pensioners are called as if they are emptying the system of something they do not always have any right. Forgotten, most of them work until 65 years and the fact that they should be paid until they do. As we know now, it does not protect them from poverty in old age. Only many of them are sufficient to cover the basic costs.

Savings? How does an average worker do this? They can’t afford to put food on the table. Get more money from the pockets of people who reduce expenditures and higher streets will disadvantage and industries will fail.

Increased retirement age? Recently, a 69 -year -old friend died, and the other was 72 years old (they were not both manual workers). The increasing retirement age for manual workers would be as cruel as cruelly, or should people work until they fall? Too many retirees, eating and warming up to increase their pensions have to look for a desperate job. Perhaps it’s time to look at some systems working in other countries!

Fast fixed ideas are not a solution. A suitable system for a purpose in which everyone pays their fair share and that people can protect their dignity and how and how they are entitled to get help are the only ways to live. Will it be? I would lie if I said I was optimistic!

Ambigirls

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Reform, not tinkering

There are problems with the triple lock, but the description of the savings is a fiction. As people approach 70, people (especially working -class people) are more likely to find appropriate employment or they cannot be employed inadequate. Therefore, they will require the benefits of working age. Since aging objects should work more and more, it is not difficult to imagine that there will be increasing costs in the health system.

In addition, approximately one -third of the millennium is likely to end working life in the private leasing sector, so housing support will be required at greater levels.

We cannot continue to deal with these systems to balance books on paper. In order to make both of them suitable for the modern age, we must reform the tax code and the social security network.

Lostboy88

Punished for saving

My father saved, paid for private pensions and paid his contributions. He was never unemployed and did everything the government wanted to do. When he retired, disgust, he has the right to do very little from the state – he was effectively punished for saving, etc. This is socialism. He told me not to make a mistake and to retire money to retire from everything I paid.

Saghia

Working until we die?

Okay, so all people who want to avoid benefit cuts have the result. The alternative is that working people work longer.

I think some benefit deductions were needed.

And everyone can leave the UK, even if we love or not – even if we love or not – if they really want to fly, and then we will lose the big amount they pay in tax. Then what? Working until we die? I think ordinary people pay for a few too many free loaders. Where is sympathy for people who do not have taxes and paying unions?

Hi5

Savings are not an answer

Savings? Savings is not the answer. If we try to save more, we spend less. If we spend less, businesses sell and make less, so they make less investment … The opposite of what we need to increase the output required to pay the pension.

It is a good example of mixed thought that affects so many people. A person who saves more will be more than that of retirement, otherwise it has more than it has. If we all try to do this, we’re all worse. What is right for an individual is often not rightly correct (wet wipes, panic purchase, smoky fuel burning, savings for retirement, etc.). The inaccuracy of the composition.

Much0ado

People don’t save because they can’t

People don’t save because they can’t – that simple. At the end of the month, there was no money to save something because of the cost of life. The vast majority of people have to do payment control for payment control without loose. Unless there is anything about it, then it is stored for the future, although Reeves says that people are pursuing their savings!

dead

Gross inequality is the root of our problems

The government cannot continue to increase the retirement age for a reason: Some people do not start working physically when they grow up. It is ridiculous to ask a manual worker to continue digging holes when he is about 70 years old. The government needs to deal with tax evasion and avoidance, including the open sea.

I would also bring a land value tax that forced the wealthy to pay their shares. Gross inequality is the main reason for most of our social problems and the time to be handled. You do not cope with it by taxing more to working people – you’ll basically tax ultra riches who don’t pay anything.

Flying Scot

It makes sense to increase the age of retirement

People live largely longer due to better living conditions, nutrition and health services. For example, now when they die, I am much older than my grandmother and grandfather. Although the most vulnerable one should still be looked at, it makes sense to raise the age of retirement in a way that reflects this change in society – it is the 21st century rather than the 1900s …

hayneman

AnsalUght in working class people

I am 73 years old, I retired at the age of 65 and worked most of my life by hand. My knees are packaged and the rest of my body is slowly packaged – there is no way to do what I do when you are young, and I haven’t done it for more than 10 years. This is the case for many manual workers.

Kendall, Reeves, Streeting, Starmer and so on. How can they call them a workers’ government with this continuous attack on the people of the working class? The unions should immediately support and finance and advise their members to place their votes elsewhere, preferably not in the direction of Farage.

Manwithnoname

The future seems unpredictable

We should not forget that the brutal walk of AI and other systems significantly reduces the number of jobs in many sectors connected to DVLA or HMRC, for example ‘data exchanges’, for example … The list is endless.

How can these workers ‘recyclable’ in the short term? How can we ensure that these legendary 16 -year -old voters have some employment to wait at any level after finishing their work?

Importing ‘low -grade’ labor, while entering the job supply at the bottom end, all these ‘surgeons and engineers’ cream from the top end …

The future seems unpredictable for too many young people. Problems should be handled now!

Not to do this will still make a triple lock, which is an invaluable resource for many retirees – it looks like change behind the couch …

Yvesferrer

These investigations are more independent of people’s realities

Financial literacy is not taught in schools. I suspect that most people who do not plan retirement do not understand the money very well. In addition, many people do not have enough spendable income to save a level of comfortable retirement. Currently, you need about £ 300,000 to £ 500,000 in special funds. This is for someone who has his own house. If you retire, but still have to pay for the rented accommodation, you have no chance.

These investigations are more independent of people’s realities. After paying tax and national insurance for 50 years, I get my state pension next year – and I will pay income tax for this 🙂

Lithium End

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