From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 08:14:35 MDT
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:33:33PM +0200, Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> Notice that nobody has said that maybe the retirement age ought to
> move up. So beside anti-aging treatments we might need anti-pension
> treatments :-)
It's already happened!
In the UK, the retirement age for women has been increased from 60
to 65. This was officially to bring the UK into line with anti-
discrimination norms in Europe, but you'll note that the alternative
options -- equal retirement for men and women at 62.5 years, or cutting
the retirement age for men to 60 -- weren't adopted.
Now the Blair government is talking about making the retirement age
"soft" -- allowing people to draw private pensions at any age over 55,
or keep working indefinitely. With the probable sting in the tale that
the minimum age for claiming the state pension will be raised from 65.
-- Charlie
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