I would like to point out to all women born in 1954 that the Government are cheating us out of amost £32,000 in state pension. I will vote for any political party that will bring the state pension age for women back to the age of 60. Young people need the jobs and no one wants teachers, nurses, bank clerks etc at the age of 66/67 to be teaching their children, etc. Is there any women out there who feel strongly about this, £32,000 is a lot of money to be taken from us..

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Well done france, lower the retirement age and create some jobs for the younger ones. The UK will have everyone working til they drop dead, and not releasing any work for younger people !!

Yes, as others have already said correctly - Well done France.

The UK should NOW follow suit, and also REDUCE the State Retirement, and Pension Age down to 60yrs of age, for this is the ONLY one clear way to get the younger 18 - 25 yr old's into any REAL Job's that will become freed - up by taking this measure.
And, NO - it will NOT Cost the UK Taxpayer anymore Money than it is already Costing the Government to keep People upon receiving JSA, and other related State Benefit's, when this Cash could be cross - applied, and used instead to pay for those wanting to fully Retire at 60 and take their State Pensions, otherwise the older UK generation will simply continue to starve the UK Employment Market from having any opening positions available to take on Apprentices, and others currently Unemployed in a Shrinking UK Jobs Market.

The way to solve the problem of the elderly, who do not have private means, is to treat them the way they treated those kids at the jubilee, make them work for no money and do not feed them.

This is a way to solve the unemployment problem, retire on a state pension at 60, the goverment recoupe this on the person who will spend it on living, food, heating, rates, and running a car if able, in return they should get a younger worker that they will not claim un-employment benifits and still spend on what ever sensable young people spend their money on, so it to will end up in the goverments pockets and employment reduced accordingly.
My arguement is that once a person has reached the age of 65 most of us are suffering from various ailments assosiated with age ect,ect I exspect I will get a few coments from some 65 year olds that claim to be perfect but they are only kidding themselves

until we sort out the immigration problem that we have now got, the retirement age will keep rising the government need our pensions to pay for all the new comers that flood in. I can understand why people come to our country for a better way of life and I can not blame them but it his now time to stop the flood before we go under.

I think the age of retirement should depend on how physically demanding your job is. A pen pusher retiring at 65 won't be as worn out as a labourer or, for example, a nurse who began work in the years when they had to lift and handle patients without lifting aids and have damaged their backs, knees etc.
Politicians have no idea what it is to do a hard days work at all. If I had spent my life sitting behind a desk I might have been able to work until well in my 60's instead of having to retire early because my body is totally worn out.

The new UK retirement age is a joke, how many people will actually reach retirement age, my late husband died just 6 weeks after he retired and i know of people that have died before reaching 60. What happens to the money that they paid to the government for their pensions ?

Also I think we are being short changed, and the government have gone back on their word, as young teenagers just going in to work we were assured that we would recieve our state pensions at 60 or 65 respectively, surely this was a verbal contract which has now been broken.

Hang your heads in shame Uk government.

As the school leaving age rises surely so must the retirement age ? When the retirement age was set at 60 for women and sixty five for men I believe it was beacause it was normal for the man to be about five years older than his wife so effectively they would retire at about the same time . The life expectancy was also much lower and the pension was expected to be paid for an average of five years ? Basically you spent 14 and a half years before work and four and a half after work so a man worked for 50 years and a woman 45 years an average of 47and a half years for five years pension . The school age leaving age is now 18 and people are living much longer working less years for a longer time receiving pension .