Milky Posted November 25, 2019 Report Share Posted November 25, 2019 What does everyone think? Women want equality but when it disadvantages them they want compensation. Should men not be compensated for having to work until they were 65 while women enjoyed a retirement from the age of 60? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer II Posted November 25, 2019 Report Share Posted November 25, 2019 Think Labour are promising to give them a bribe for their votes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted November 25, 2019 Report Share Posted November 25, 2019 I agree with you Milky it's wrong. Infact now retirement age has gone even higher I think everyone currently over 55 should get compensation. I've just checked my state pension retirement age on hmrcs website and I won't get mine until I'm 67...the same age as Mr Dizzy.... and it says changes are in the pipeline and both might go up. Gawd I wish I'd not looked now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted November 25, 2019 Report Share Posted November 25, 2019 And I just checked when we are both entitled to our free bus passes. Age 67 for that too. I might move to Wales or Scotland as you still get them when you are 60 there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted November 25, 2019 Report Share Posted November 25, 2019 Or until they both get independence. Free bus passes will be the first thing to go closely followed by free prescriptions..🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy51 Posted November 25, 2019 Report Share Posted November 25, 2019 I seem to remember a woman taking the government to court to fight for the right to be able to work till 65 ,the same as the men. All this upheaval over women's pensions has seemed to come from that time. Perhaps she was a stooge of the government of the day to enable it to save millions by changing the law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer II Posted November 25, 2019 Report Share Posted November 25, 2019 gender equality ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted November 25, 2019 Report Share Posted November 25, 2019 If Corbyn gets into No. 10 everyone will be equal. No State Pensions, no bus passes. Everyone equally without anything. But hey! 16 year olds and the rest of the world will be able to vote for this equality 🤣😥 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milky Posted November 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2019 14 hours ago, Dizzy said: And I just checked when we are both entitled to our free bus passes. Age 67 for that too. I might move to Wales or Scotland as you still get them when you are 60 there! State retirement age is set to increase to 68 by 2037, which will make it one of the highest retirement ages in Europe although Denmark is planing to raise it retirement age to 72 by 2035. Norway and Iceland already have a retirement age of 67. Most western countries are planing on a retirement age of 67 although Poland has a retirement age of 60 for women and 65 for men. Russia is 55 for women and 60 for men, although that is to increase by 5 years in the next eight years. Ukraine has a retirement age of 58 and 60 and is planing to increase this by two years. In China the retirement age for men is 60 and for women 50! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confused52 Posted November 26, 2019 Report Share Posted November 26, 2019 Milky, the rise to 68 was predicated on longevity increasing but it has not done so. There may well be a revision in due course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy51 Posted November 26, 2019 Report Share Posted November 26, 2019 One of the main problems with providing pensions is that there are too many other benefits being paid out from the Community Chest. Apart from disability payments & whatever payment takes care of the unemployed these days, we have Tax Credits to encourage people to work part time in order to get them off the dole figures to make our economy look more prosperous than it is. The benefits system is over subscribed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milky Posted November 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2019 4 hours ago, Confused52 said: Milky, the rise to 68 was predicated on longevity increasing but it has not done so. There may well be a revision in due course. Retirement Age Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer II Posted December 7, 2019 Report Share Posted December 7, 2019 Just watched Jeff Taylor on Youtube: seems Steptoe's uncosted promise of compensation for the WASPI women; would be illegal under EU law. It contavenes an EU directive from 1978, which sought to bring equal rights to the age of retirement age for men&women. So yet another porkie from Jeremy, and a reminder of why we should leave the EU.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted December 7, 2019 Report Share Posted December 7, 2019 1 hour ago, Observer II said: Just watched Jeff Taylor on Youtube: seems Steptoe's uncosted promise of compensation for the WASPI women; would be illegal under EU law. It contavenes an EU directive from 1978, which sought to bring equal rights to the age of retirement age for men&women. So yet another porkie from Jeremy, and a reminder of why we should leave the EU.. This just about covers all of Liebours "promises to the electorate". Impossible lies in the hope that the great unwashed* will swallow it again. *this is how the Labour Party views it's voter base. It hasn't been the party of the working man/woman for decades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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