I don't mind the retirement age being raised per se, but for heaven's sake, it's the 21st century, why are they only proposing to increase the retirement age for *men*?
Also, if they could promise to ensure that my "company" pension pays out when and at the rate that both I and my employer agreed at the start, that would be quite nice :-p
My understanding is that an increase in the retirement age for women is already on the cards. The fuss is not about raising the retirement age for women, but about how fast it gets raised, eg: But analysts immediately spotted a problem. The government is raising the pension age for women, to bring it up to the pension age for men, but this process will not be complete until 2020. Initially, it seemed that the Tory plan could result in the pension age for women rising from 63 to 66 in a single year.
Yes, women's retirement age is being raised, in a phased process, to bring it in line with men's. But the proposals I was reading today are all about raising men's retirement age, in pretty short order, and pretty damn soon, whilst not saying anything about women's retirement age. Or at least, not saying anything about it until someone pointed out that they'd forgotten to mention 51% of the population, at which point, it would seem, they harrumphed a bit, wibbled, promised not to raise women's retirement age too quickly, and then said "ooh, look, a three headed monkey" and making off with all possible haste.
I am unconvinced they've thought this through with any degree of rigour. Or possibly even just the first half of that sentence.
So far as I understood, the proposal was always going to affect all working men and women, and the wibbling was the fact that they'd forgotten the already-planned raise for women, rather than forgotten women entirely. Which doesn't give me any more confidence that they've actually thought it through, mind.
The text part is not much of a departure from the first few logos the series ever had. It's retro. I like it. The Tardis icon is way too gimmicky, though.
You really should have an INDIFFERENT option on your polls. I can't tell you how indifferent I am to most of these questions.
As for the retirement age - in broad terms it is probably good, in personal terms it is definitely bad. I can't afford to retire without the state pension, which means I cannot retire early. But I have plans for what I want to do when I retire, and it is something I want to do far far more than anything I am doing right now. Looks like I'll have to put it off for another year, which is most distinctly undesirable.
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Also, if they could promise to ensure that my "company" pension pays out when and at the rate that both I and my employer agreed at the start, that would be quite nice :-p
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But analysts immediately spotted a problem. The government is raising the pension age for women, to bring it up to the pension age for men, but this process will not be complete until 2020. Initially, it seemed that the Tory plan could result in the pension age for women rising from 63 to 66 in a single year.
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I am unconvinced they've thought this through with any degree of rigour. Or possibly even just the first half of that sentence.
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As for the retirement age - in broad terms it is probably good, in personal terms it is definitely bad. I can't afford to retire without the state pension, which means I cannot retire early. But I have plans for what I want to do when I retire, and it is something I want to do far far more than anything I am doing right now. Looks like I'll have to put it off for another year, which is most distinctly undesirable.
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