Are you worried about the rise in inflation?
as a pensioner, my basic pension went up by 2.5% in April, but the other elements did not rise at all. Similarly, my CS pension and my wife's NHS pension never rose at all. So, any rise in the cost of living hits us hard.
Tue, 18/05/2010 - 17:33
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As a retired teacher, I was glad to have a pension at the end of the day.
Being female, and having raised a family on [eventually] a single wage for many years, I was glad it was index-linked-given how much superannuation I paid into it. Like most public service pensions it is temporarily frozen.Few female teachers ever see the full pension-as forty years is not always possible for those with family breaks[even shortish ones] or those who become carers for elderly parents coming up to retirement. Plenty of men don't make it either, as heart attacks are pretty high on the list for [particularly] secondary teachers....and I don't know how the young ones will fare at all with sporadic work, longer working lives, increasing violence in some schools and death by drowning in paperwork. I enjoyed my job but was glad to be going at the end. Memo-nothing is written in tablets of stone........
Sat, 22/05/2010 - 15:27
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