Pensions, Retirement and Old Age

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Hole at the Heart of the System

Gordon Brown has renamed the DTI the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR) to reflect its focus on the reduction of red tape and a commitment to entrepreneurship. 2006 Older employees plan to keep on working Older employees are increasingly willing to work on past the traditional retirement age, according to a new survey. called 'baby boomers' have told Heydey, profit organisation set up by Age Concern, they want to work past the state pension age.

Funds Pension Letter by Hugh Lowe, September 2004

Robert Macregor, AFFS director, commented that the system was designed to allow employees to interact with their benefits package and develop an understanding of its true value. style list of benefits that an SME may offer its staff. Furthermore, the system incorporates a pension modelling platform which allows staff to see their projected income at the age of retirement.

Hancock John Pension Following John P Johnston's excellent letter (July/August SR), at 82 and a longstanding member of the campaigning pensioners brigade (which I hope he will join), I think his description of the World Bank's model for a pension system is correct, omitting only to say where it came from - Britain.

"Requiring compulsory contributions from businesses will hit small firms disproportionately and will be seen as another tax on them." Lord Turner led a commission on pensions for the government which published its findings last November, calling for the retirement age to be raised from 65 to 69. The report also called for the establishment of a national pensions savings scheme, a proposal which the FTSE Group today claimed could produce "massive distortions" in the FTSE 100 index.

Pension Widow It is an almost exact copy of the Beveridge pension model, whose plan was for a state pension 'sufficient... to provide the minimum income needed for subsistence... and furthers the condition within social security for the growth of a multi-million pound enterprise of private pensions'. This concept is the curse of our pension system but beloved by employers.

Some retired taxpayers receive a retirement pension or annuity, often paid in installments. But in most cases this retirement benefit does not escape taxation. In addition, quarterly tax payments may be due if withholding is not taken out of the monthly benefit. For more on this topic, please review Annuities and Pension Plan Installment Payments.

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Investment Pension Barbara Castle attempted to improve this system (1975), basing it on social (national) insurance contributions from workers and employers, with part flat rate, part earnings-related benefits, both indexed to wages. Unfortunately she buckled under pressure and left a huge hole in the system, allowing 'opting out and going private' for the earnings-related segment, which is what fuels privatised pensions. These conclusively bit the dust when the stockmarket bubble burst in 2000.

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Department Pension Work Employers, the City and the TUC crept through this gaping hole, incidentally penning the way for Thatcher to abolish the indexation of state pensions to wages within a few years. This cut to workers' incomes in retirement received almost no attention at the time (1980).

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Benefit Corporation Guaranty The private and occupational pension niches which groups of workers negotiated piecemeal, guided by the TUC, are now mostly dead ends. They have virtually no legal protection. The TUC does not seem to have woken up to this even now. Of course if selected workers have the bottle and can ground the planes or stop the trains, they can get concessions from employers over pensions, among other things - but for how long and who else does it help? And what about the workers (including a large majority of women) who don't have an occupational pension that will make their retirement income up to the means-tested Minimum Income Guarantee, or even have one at all?

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Government Pension In western Europe, where the strategy of the trade unions has been to refuse to touch private pensions with a bargepole, things are different - dramatically so.

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Pension Retirement The general level of pensions as a proportion of wages is around twice what it is in Britain, and employers contribute twice the amount or more in pension contributions compared to Britain.

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Atlanta Attorney Pension When their pensions are under attack the trade union response is to organise general strikes and demonstrations of millions, because an attack on one is very clearly an attack on all. Compare this with the small pension demonstration of about 8,000 in London on 19 June.

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Pension Uk But they add up to a big no to privatisation, in pensions as much as in other public services. It is not only possible to eliminate privatisation from our pension system, but absolutely necessary if most British retired workers, especially women, are ever to have decent pensions.

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