The government has hinted that millions of people would be forced to work until they were 75 before they were allowed the state pension under a retirement age review headed by Sir John Cridland.
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‘Retired union workers facing large pension cuts gathered to voice their anger at those cuts Tuesday. Representative Emanuel Cleaver conducted the town hall meeting. According to Cleaver, more than 270,000 people from across several states, including Missouri, who have vested millions of dollars into their pension funds, have been told their benefits from the Central […]
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‘Chancellor George Osborne will face a fiery backbench revolt if he persists with plans to raid the pensions of high-income tax payers in a bid to slash the deficit, senior Tories have claimed. In the run up to March’s budget, proposals are being mooted in the Treasury to ensure all workers who pay into a […]
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‘One thing is for certain: The American political class – the self-anointed elite among us – is not merely well taken care of; they are pampered, much like the ruling class in 18th century England. Their healthcare is paid for, their pensions assured (even if they only serve a single term in office), their salaries […]
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‘The adoption of the austerity measures is stipulated in Athens’ third and latest bailout package from its European creditors and constitutes a condition for the further extension of credits to the country. Among other measures, the draft provides for the retirement age increase from 55 years for men and 50 for women to 67 for […]
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‘Over the last few days I’ve been in Greece as part of a delegation with the Greece Solidarity Campaign. The scale of the challenge facing the Greek people, though already at the forefront of my mind, has been amplified by the many people I’ve met who describe to me a country in utter turmoil. Greece’s […]
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‘Just one in three workers will receive the full £148 flat-rate state pension next year — far fewer than first estimated, Money Mail can reveal. Government figures imply 100,000 fewer than expected will get the maximum in the first ten years of the new deal. This includes an estimated 30,000 people who it was thought […]
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‘Just one in three workers will receive the full £148 flat-rate state pension next year — far fewer than first estimated, Money Mail can reveal. Government figures imply 100,000 fewer than expected will get the maximum in the first ten years of the new deal. This includes an estimated 30,000 people who it was thought […]
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You may have seen a variation of this chart of employment in the U.S. by age group. This chart–courtesy of mdbriefing.com– shows the number of those employed (with any kind of job–full-time, part-time, self-employed) as a percentage of the Civilian…
‘Greg Gianforte, aspiring Republican governor of Montana, urges college students to reject policy that favors savings plans and retirement options because, like Noah, Christians have “an obligation to work” until they are hundreds of years […]
As many of us have observed over the past few years, local governments in America are caught in the pincers of rapidly rising pension and healthcare costs and stagnant tax revenues. The only “fixes” that don’t alienate vested interests or…
‘The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center on Tuesday urged Croatia to stop paying pensions to people who served in the country’s World War II Nazi-allied armed forces, labelling the policy an insult to their victims. “In […]
‘Last year, U.S. taxpayers paid $470,000 in pensions and benefits to former president Jimmy Carter, who left office in 1981. George H.W. Bush received $837,000. He left office in 1989. Bill Clinton received $950,000 in […]
‘Panic descended in Athens on Thursday as Greece’s 2 million pensioners were hit with delays to their monthly state stipend. Pensioners raided their accounts and broke into a board meeting, according to reports. The Greek […]
‘There was a brief bout of Greek risk-on euphoria following yesterday’s latest twist in the winding road to the Greek insolvency, in which the Greek finance minister Varoufakis became the latest sacrificial scapegoat to be […]