Remember the Waspi women, who used to leap up and down outside Tory conferences for the right to continue to retire at 60? They claimed that their carefully laid retirement plans had been thrown into disarray by the government’s decision to equalise women’s retirement age with that of men – even though they had been given two decades’ notice and their careful plans for retirement hadn’t, it seemed, quite extended to bothering to find out at what age they would retire.
The ideal should be to water down the concept of retirement altogether
The government eventually saw them off, but it is once again risking the wrath of 50 and 60 somethings – of both sexes – by threatening to bring forward the date at which the retirement age will be raised to 68. To declare a personal interest, under current plans I am due to qualify for a state pension at the age of 67 but under the proposed changes it could mean me having to work – quelle horreur! – a full extra year.
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