Dear Jeremy - I am still not going back to work.

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Yours happily retired.

Not really thanks to him but ok.

You still get 30 hours for 3-4 year olds.

We should be happy future generations may get extra help! It's still not until 2025 so the babies already born mostly won't benefit

Dear Jeremy,

You forgot older primary school children who need holiday club provision (our holiday clubs in the entire City havent restarted since Covid!). Term time only jobs are very rare.
I have MS and my employer refused part time or flexible working so I had to leave.

Shame I can't help boost the construction industry you keep going on about......

Many thanks,
Unemployed architect over here 👋

If he didnt start one of the threads about the budget it's either his wife or someone who works for him. Pretty sure he hears about mumsnet.

Dear Jeremy, I've been at work since age 11 (crop picking , haha) worked all through school and uni (very small grant then to live on ) brought children up without govt monetary help (nothing paid for nusery fees then) , no family help either as I was a services wife, worked part time juggling as you do, (no family tax credits then ) no notice given as to women's pension going up by 6 /7 years and you would like me to retrain on an apprentices wage?
Would you mind awfully if I said no to your bloody fantastic offer of a "Returnership" opportunity?

What's his email address? 😂

55 here.
I am carer for my adult son wiith ASD (forever I guess)
I am child care for my dgs a couple of days a week too because my DD and her DH are working flat out to have a roof over their heads
I still manage a couple of days supply TA up to the paltry amount Carer's allows me to work.
I could shove a broom up my arse and try to sweep the floor as I go, but actually no Jeremy. I'm not able or willing to go back full time for sod all TA pension!!!

@BootsTrapBootsTrap

Are you being serious?
If so, your post is mean and totally unjustified.

I would imagine if those over 50 have decided to retire have made a decision and can afford to do so. So why the fuck would he think they would be tempted back.

Dear Jeremy

You do realise some of us would prefer you not to have returned to work - although it was interesting that you apparently see a normal MP role as a "quiet life".

Meh, don't apologise. Good for you OP!

Good for you if you are enjoying it…happy retirement! 🥳

I think I might be in the minority but I want to keep working for as long as possible. I love the purpose of getting up for work and just feel i’d end up bored not working (even though I have a good social group/love holidays etc). I think im just someone who will probably still be working into my 70’s (if health allows). My Husband talks about his colleagues retiring at 55 (on good pensions, he wont be retiring then) and just cant imagine stopping work at 55.

Dear Jeremy.

Oh do fuck off you odious toad.

Kind regards
etc...

I am insanely jealous. I still have almost 30 years of work ahead of me! How do you fill your days, do you do volunteering, catching up with friends etc?

Only if you choose to see it that way. I can't afford to retire. I am also not insulted that other people can 😂

Dear Jeremy. If you’d done this a few years ago, I could have afforded to have a second child, so I’m a bit gutted now …

I wonder if Jeremy will be working at 70

I said that first thing today when I saw the news.

So a family gets 30 hours childcare for a 1 year old. Brilliant if you need it (totally support this change) but what is to stop a parent using it who isnt working? Will you need proof of work to be given these hours? Just seems a waste if the hours are given to people who dont need it. Meanwhile, we pay for holiday clubs to be able to do our jobs through the whole year. Cant believe yours haven’t restarted - ours never stopped apart from in 2020.

Op

Us two. Dh snd I happily retired at 56. Please don't anyone call us lucky it's not luck dh worked on average a 15 hour days for 4 years plus to set up a business. We are done. Up to others now to make it a better sucess.

Lucky with our health though.

I went back to work at the age of 65. Did something completely different to my previous working background via Agencies.
I loved it and was never out of work. Due to a fairly serious accident I had to stop working, but age never stopped me being offered employment.

When I was 18 and your predecessor Nige was chancellor retirement age was 60 for women. I still plan on retiring at that age.

Too many women want it all ways. So equality in the workplace - but not retirement age.

My DH works 12 hour days and he’s 20 years into his job! 😅I imagine he’ll be doing it at least until 65/70 before he can retire and he’s on a decent income.

Its very hard to compare between the generations. Alot of luck with house prices etc. Ours has at least doubled in value since we bought it a decade ago (on what should be a road for families but no young families can afford it now). I have no idea how anyone young gets on the property ladder anymore and most younger people I meet just think they will never retire! 😅

I don't suppose the 'supporting disabled people into work' means bringing back the Independent Living Fund does it Jeremy?

I suspect it just means bullying people - people who struggle to travel anywhere on our shitty in-accessible, unreliable public transport, people for whom just getting out of bed costs them in terms of finance, pain and mental effort, people whom employers frankly don't fucking want and have to be bribed and forced into taking them on... to do shit jobs 'or else'.

Fuck you Jeremy. I retired today, at 43. I won't live long enough to actually retire and claim a pension, despite paying contributions voluntarily all my working life. I bet you have never had to consider that you can no longer physically do the job you adore and have worked indescribably hard to achieve accreditation and industry recognition and respect for.

It is MN, some people come here to be performatively annoyed...

Dear @TribeD

How unkind to toads you have been. They are not as slimy!

A lot of jobs are hard and people do not want to do them after a certain age but some have to work and want to work.There is some research that shòws a slight increase in dementia risk at retirement.Even people who dont live alone and do have kids can suffer.I also think there are lots of cliches re retirement and that some people follow societal rules and norms whether they believe in them or not.Not everyone wants spend their time in garden centres or looking after grandkids.Some retired people can look lost and lonely but sure everyone needs a choice
But the benefits of an intergenerational.work force are great and not everyone is a rich boomer.Just needs to be less ageism in recruitmentn