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[STEMO]

Work till you die:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40658774

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Forty.....I remember forty.

[aaronjb]

Hah. Retirement. A luxury only the generation before me can afford 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Hah. Retirement. A luxury only the generation before me can afford 

It is your duty to pay for  the social care needed by STMO and his like.

Keeping coffin dodgers alive is an expensive business.

[STEMO]

Hah. Retirement. A luxury only the generation before me can afford 

It is your duty to pay for  the social care needed by STMO and his like.

Keeping coffin dodgers alive is an expensive business.

I agree, Opti. I get my state pension next year, it's only about £700 a month but it should keep me in horlicks.

[Mister Rog]

Hah. Retirement. A luxury only the generation before me can afford 

It is your duty to pay for  the social care needed by STMO and his like.

Keeping coffin dodgers alive is an expensive business.

I agree, Opti. I get my state pension next year, it's only about £700 a month but it should keep me in horlicks incontinence pads.

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[STEMO]

Hah. Retirement. A luxury only the generation before me can afford 

It is your duty to pay for  the social care needed by STMO and his like.

Keeping coffin dodgers alive is an expensive business.

I agree, Opti. I get my state pension next year, it's only about £700 a month but it should keep me in horlicks incontinence pads.

Fixed   

If I don't get the horlicks, I won't need the pads 

[Mister Rog]

Work till you die:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40658774

But seriously, in the 1980s I started paying into a private pension plan, not a lot but affordable. That plan now stands to exceed my state pension.

Message. Start one, even with a really small amount a month, cost of a few pints. The way things are going you'll get sod all state pension when you retire at 99.

[STEMO]

Would you be happy if your child was being taught by a 68 year old teacher? Or if the nurse who was about to stick a huge needle in your arm was having trouble standing up? 

[aaronjb]

Would you be happy if your child was being taught by a 68 year old teacher? Or if the nurse who was about to stick a huge needle in your arm was having trouble standing up? 

I read an article about Japan recently where they are discussing raising retirement age to 75..

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/japan-doctors-propose-raising-retirement-age-to-75

One of Japan’s foremost advocates of positive ageing, Shigeaki Hinohara, died on Tuesday aged 105. The honorary head of St Luke’s International hospital in Tokyo had continued practising medicine after he turned 100.

Hinohara was a prolific lecturer who often called on older people to maintain an active social life and take control of their destiny.

[Doctor Gollum]

Would you be happy if your child was being taught by a 68 year old teacher? Or if the nurse who was about to stick a huge needle in your arm was having trouble standing up? 

Several people assisting disabled passengers at Gatwick are well past retirement age, oldest I know of is almost 80

[Varche]

Spare a thought too for the women born in the 1950's who instead of retiring at 60 will retire at 65 or more. Forgotten group.

Ten years ago my advice to the tunnie class was to either enjoy yourself to the hilt and arrive at 65 with not much and have the state " look after you" OR to invest every spare penny in a private pension or similar . Now I amnot so sure what Iwould advise. I have a horrible feeling that the only way out of national debts is swingeing inheritance tax and tax on windfalls like private pensions that have done too well. The argument being you dont need it.

[Shackeng]

Would you be happy if your child was being taught by a 68 year old teacher? Or if the nurse who was about to stick a huge needle in your arm was having trouble standing up? 

No problem: http://abcnews.go.com/US/american-airlines-dedicates-boeing-777-91-year-mechanic/story?id=48699313
 

[LC0112G]

Spare a thought too for the women born in the 1950's who instead of retiring at 60 will retire at 65 or more. Forgotten group.

You mean those money grabbing sexist and ageist GRASPI idiots who are quite happy for a man born on the same day to have to wait 6 years more for their SP, and who (should) have known for 20+ years about the increase in their SP age to bring it into line with the mens SP age?

I'm afraid the thought I'm sparing for them probably isn't what you mean. They're all for equality providing it doesn't affect them.   

[STEMO]

Right. A about 0.000001% of people can carry on past 90, so no worries.