Cant help but think the pension changes are short term, not just for civil servants but for all of us. We need a culture change. A new way of tackling the problem instead of deferring it. A long term sustainable plan. This has been known for years but I don't see the issue really being tackled. Im thinking what it's going to be like in the future when the younger generation have to fund these pensions. There will be less people to support more pension payments in general to the public and the retirees are going to live longer. Not only that but the younger generation are unlikely to receive the type of package they have to fund for the older generation value wise by then and will probably have to retire later themselves to keep it funded. Pension schemes in private business have largely closed to new entrants. Even in Finance. So unless they have spare cash for a private pension the younger person is unlikely to have an employment pension where as the older generation largely do to supplement their States one. There is going to be a lot of resentment if this happens. Especially if it gets increasingly harder to get on the housing ladder and the baby boomers are renting out properties at high prices still - though I guess that could change but worth considering. They will pass away and leave the property as inheritance at some point which may ease things. We can't keep pretending the issue isn't coming. The longer we leave it the more expensive the change will be. We should not be leaving young ones the mess to clean up. We should be more pro-active and tackle this head on.
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