[JANICE199]

"such as caring for the "very old" or face losing some of their pension, a peer has suggested."
And although such a move might be controversial, it would stop older people being a "burden on the state".
BBC News - Lord Bichard: Retired people could work for pensions

I know what i'd like to do to him.

 

[Muze]

Wow, it just gets better and better

 

[Guest]

What a pillock.

 

[dorrit]

Next theyll be digging the corpses up and making the dead go back to work ..

If youve worked all your life then you deserve to sit back and make the most of the time you have left ..

I do think the workshy and permenant unemployed like my neighbour and my SIL should be made to work for their benefit, they live the life of riley sleeping til 10am lounging about, watching tv and get paid for it!

 

[Holtie]

I'll join you there!!

I personally feel that the old people are being punished for being 'old'!
I dont think he has to worry because he probably has enough money stashed away anyway!!

Arrogant twit!!!!!!

 

[JANICE199]

What a pillock.

Trust me that's not what i called him.

 

[harley bear]

I think they are at the wrong end of the age scale! They should be getting the kids that have never worked a day in their life who are claiming of the state and too good to work for macd's doing the community work!

 

[FREE SPIRIT]

This has to be one of the sickest things ive read yet. It is bad enough to kick the poor and disabled while they are down but to now start on the pensioners? Will people really stand by and let this happen?
If someone chooses to continue to work whether paid or voluntarily after retirement, that is up to them. But to suggest they should be held to ransom with their pensions is bloody evil.

 

[Phoolf]

I honestly burst out laughing when I saw the headline. It's so like being under Thatcher it's comical. Off to watch Boys From the Blackstuff now... :lol:

 

[skip]

so when you reach retirement they dont think that you are really entitled to the pension you have paid in to all your working life, are they kind of hoping we'll all just pop our clogs before we need to claim our pension and if we dont they will punish us for not dying

 

[DoodlesRule]

Fits in nicely with increasing the pension age - neither stupid idea take any account of folks that have done heavy manual or physical work. All very well working in your 70's & 80's if you are a judge or lord of the manor.

My parents are not a burden on the state because they get b**ger all anyway

 

[DoodlesRule]

Makes you wonder what century they are trying to turn the clock back to - remember Dad telling me about his grandfather, there was no pensions then so he was still working at 76 years of age - in a quarry! He got home one day and said that was a tough week don't want to see another like that, sat down in his chair and dropped dead.

 

[Waterlily]

well, this one is a disgrace.

 

[Waterlily]

If they need to save money that bad, they should cut the fat from the top, and make the politicians have the exact same pension, on retirement as normal everyday people, and shrink the ludicrous wages they get before then.

 

[Holtie]

so when you reach retirement they dont think that you are really entitled to the pension you have paid in to all your working life, are they kind of hoping we'll all just pop our clogs before we need to claim our pension and if we dont they will punish us for not dying

I couldn't have put it better myself! You have hit the nail on the head there!

That twit is away with the fairies!

 

[Calvine]

This has to be one of the sickest things ive read yet. It is bad enough to kick the poor and disabled while they are down but to now start on the pensioners? Will people really stand by and let this happen?
If someone chooses to continue to work whether paid or voluntarily after retirement, that is up to them. But to suggest they should be held to ransom with their pensions is bloody evil.

The pension is peanuts anyway, to suggest they have to go out and work for it...are these people for real? Whatever next? What gets me is that as an illegal you can come over here and get the lot, having not paid in a cent, but having worked all your life, paid tax on your earnings then again on any savings you might have been able to make out of your earnings...NOW THIS. I know retired people who do a few hours a week in a charity shop but to be forced to do it is totally laughable.

 

[Luz]

Once again coming from people who don't have to worry because they're from privileged backgrounds!

 

[RAINYBOW]

Do they not reallise that most early retired people ARE looking after their elderly parents anyway !!!!! AND thanks to the great haves and have nots divide most still have their kids at home too as they cant afford to move out or are childminding their grandchildren so their daughters and daughter in laws can work to support their families without the crippling cost of childcare !!!

It's a feckin liberty is what it is. Pay into something all your life and then "earn" it again when you retire.

VOLUNTEERING - By definition it is a choice and good on those that choose to do it but it shouldnt be compulsory.

God help my generation, this lot will have us nailing our own coffins and digging our own holes

 

[Wiz201]

I'm at the beginning of my career really at 27, going to stick it out as long as possible as I know I'm lucky to be in a full time job nowadays at my age, but god knows what's going to happen when I get to retiring age...:001_unsure:

 

[Calvine]

Fits in nicely with increasing the pension age - neither stupid idea take any account of folks that have done heavy manual or physical work. All very well working in your 70's & 80's if you are a judge or lord of the manor.

My parents are not a burden on the state because they get b**ger all anyway

How true. And if they go into a care home they'll take most of what they've got anyway.