retire at 67

http://www.channelonline.tv/channelonline_guernseynews/displayarticle.asp?id=438098


surprise, surprise.

tell me, does this apply to police officers, firemen etc. on a golden pension pot ?

seems i will be ok then lol xx

phew that is close ..i was born that year ...hubby will be pleased as he will retire in just under 4 years

People who have heavy manual jobs should be able to retire at 65. People who have soft jobs (desk jockeys etc.) should be made to retire at 70.

Thats OK I will now live 2 years longer just to get my own back :-)

In Fact sod it, I think I will go for an extra 4 years so I can make a bit of extra

Both my Father and my Husband died before they reached their pension age, Father 60 husband 56 and I bet there are a lot like them........at least mum and I got a widow's pension - paid for by our husband's contributions - but they have stopped that - so if the man dies - the woman has to go out to work even if she is totally untrained, having been a homemaker and mother......doesn't seem right to me - and as you say Pete, they are now increasing the odds against you actually collecting! How many 60+ women, who have not trained for anything other than being a wife are going to walk into a job that will support them until they are 67???

now lets look at the larger picture here.

peeps running up to retirement now were probably alot worse off than ourselves years ago, i now my parents and all my friends parents struggled to buy a home and bring up a family.

now theve done it and in their twilight years theres alot of folks out there that are cash poor but property wealthy. ( thanks to the property boom )

once these parents have passed away and left their property etc to their children are they then going to have to work as hard as the parents did. I doubt it.

personaly i can see a generation ( the peeps in their 30s / early 40s ) not having to work to 67, but rather choose a job on a part time basis that just pays a min. contribution ( if you choose not to work at all you have to pay max. contribution. )

if my theory is correct the brown stuff will hit the fan big time.

i myself have other plans for my early retirement as i probably wont get a penny, and im not counting on it.