The government wants to speed up plans to rise the state pension age to 66 for men before 2016. The ministers are even thinking about rising up to 70 in the following decades. Work and Pensions Secretary Ian Duncan Smith said it was time to "reinvigorate the pension’s landscape". Under the plans, women will move to an age of 66 in a few years after men. The previous Lab our government's policy was to rise the pension age to 66 in 2024 and then gradually to 68 by 2046. The coalition argues that this should be speeded up, eventually meaning a pension age of 70 or older. Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, said: "To force someone who has done a lifetime of toil on building sites, farms or in factories to work until they are 66 is completely unacceptable."
Comment:
The government has to reconsider this plan, because I agree with the GMB union. It is unfair to let people work to 66 or even maybe to 70 years. For upper class people it is easy to accept if they have a job like being a lawyer, but people who work 9 hours a day every day in factories or do heavy work it is not that easy to work more than half of your life even though the people are living longer and healthier, there is a limit of strength and energy a human being has got.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/politics/10398918.stm
Comment:
The government has to reconsider this plan, because I agree with the GMB union. It is unfair to let people work to 66 or even maybe to 70 years. For upper class people it is easy to accept if they have a job like being a lawyer, but people who work 9 hours a day every day in factories or do heavy work it is not that easy to work more than half of your life even though the people are living longer and healthier, there is a limit of strength and energy a human being has got.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/politics/10398918.stm
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