Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has outlined plans to raise the state pension age for men to 66 from 2016, up to 10 years earlier than planned.
He said the move was needed to help reduce the UK's debts, saying "hard choices could not be avoided" because of the dire state of public finances.
The pension age for women will rise to 65 by 2020 under Tory proposals...
Under the government's existing plans, the state pension age for men will rise gradually from 65 to 68 between 2024 to 2046. For women it will gradually rise from 60 to 65 over ten years from 2010.
Why are UK women allowed to qualify 5 years before men???
Look at the NZ comparison;
Now if NZ women qualified for Super at 60 that would add up to another 120,000 pensioners or push the total up to nearly 15% of the population.
What is wrong with the poms? I always thought their sheila's were soft. Seriously, I cannot think of any reason why women are paid a state pension to retire at 60, when men are not.
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OF course, if pensions were based on life expectancy women would qualify 10 years after men
Let's ask the real question: what place does the state have in providing pensions in the first place? Or indeed in any place?
Why do women qualify younger. Its simple, its done to win female votes. Most women expect to be supported, for many thousands of years they have had men (husbands) provide for them. When the state intervened over the past 100 years and told women they could have the support without a husband, it got even better.
Why do men put up with this? Because they are socially programmed to provide for women. If they objected to the state providing handouts to women, they would look like meanies.
We are told continuously (by state funded organisations) that men are violent bastards who dont want to pay their child support. In fact most men are softies who just want to care for a loving wife and their children.
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