Pension age.
Thursday, 15. October 2009, 15:34:41
Yes, that title promises a roller-coaster ride of a blog entry, I know.
I was thinking (always a mistake) about Britain's plan to increase the pension age to sixty-six, to save money. I think it's a false economy.
Increasing the pension age in a time of high unemployment shouldn't reduce the number of dependents on state aid; the people not being pensioned should, one might assume, have otherwise been replaced by people who were unemployed, at least, they should have created a job vacancy for some-one previously unemployed.
Being a pensioner doesn't at all carry the stigma of being unemployed. Pensioners don't need harassing by public servants to change their status, or retraining programmes, and hopefully don't become unmotivated and suicidally depressed.
I think that they should take it the other way in times of high unemployment. It would also makes cuts in the public sector less painful.
Or?
I was thinking (always a mistake) about Britain's plan to increase the pension age to sixty-six, to save money. I think it's a false economy.
Increasing the pension age in a time of high unemployment shouldn't reduce the number of dependents on state aid; the people not being pensioned should, one might assume, have otherwise been replaced by people who were unemployed, at least, they should have created a job vacancy for some-one previously unemployed.
Being a pensioner doesn't at all carry the stigma of being unemployed. Pensioners don't need harassing by public servants to change their status, or retraining programmes, and hopefully don't become unmotivated and suicidally depressed.
I think that they should take it the other way in times of high unemployment. It would also makes cuts in the public sector less painful.
Or?
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