Retirement age in Denmark set to raise to 70

[MikeRafone]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg71v533q6o

I hadn’t realised Denmark was presently in line with uk on retirement age and now raising it to 70

and that’s for people born 1970 onwards! I wonder if this will be used for uk to fallow suit?

I don’t think they are over and above anyone else. If you’re young, you’re probably unaware of the advantages you have that older people didn’t, and just focussing on the things you don’t like.

Not so long ago, there were no free places at nurseries, no benefits for the lowly paid, no childcare costs paid, no tax credits for working people, no minimum wage. Women and children, in particular, were affected and trapped in really bad situations.

Anyway, it’s the government that’s shafting you - not older people.

The state pension ages needs to rise with life expectancy. When it was introduced it was set so people would on average get a year or two retirement now many people get 20 years plus. In the past people so started to work at a younger age on average.

Well I said I’d leave you alone but you keep replying to my posts so now it feels like sport.

@Badbadbunny exactly, they aren't fucking stupid.

Thanks.

Well I said I’d leave you alone but you keep replying to my posts so now it feels like sport.

No you said you would leave me alone and also implied I was doing something that I wasn't. I am just correcting you.

Just leave it as "I will leave you alone". It's not hard...

Then stop having to have the last word.

The irony

The humanity

I never inferred that but if you look at a simple demographics chart you will see that you were funding a hell of a lot less people for a hell of a lot less time. Put simply, your contributions may have funded the generations above you but this was a smaller burden shared amongst a great deal more people. There should have been a recognition fairly early on that the population wasn't continuing to expand how it has done in the 50s and 60s and that Baby Boomers would have to fund some of their own costs to be fair to the less populated generation beneath you. Baby Boomers have absolutely not paid their way. They should have contributed more in their working years to fund he benefits they enjoy now.

Ill health and sickness will come to every generation as it ages. Your DH had the opportunity to retire at 66 but if he was of a later generation then this wouldn't be possible. How is this fair?

@CantStopMoving interesting about the lump sum. It has potential

In the past you had a job for life in the past there was plenty of work around unskilled people could do

The past is another country we don't live there anymore

That's terrible and so long ago I was still a staff nurse xx

I don’t know why you think the young have been shafted at all? Do you understand history? Read about the late 20s and 30s and the economic crisis there. Unemployment was terrible and many people never recovered their life or livelihoods.

There isn't virtually anybody left alive who was an adult in the pre-war period, certainly not in the 1920's. What the greatest generation experience is irrelevant.

If this happens an awful.lot of us will be claiming sickness benefits in our late sixties, me included.

I don’t know why you think the young have been shafted at all? Do you understand history? Read about the late 20s and 30s and the economic crisis there. Unemployment was terrible and many people never recovered their life or livelihoods.

The young of today aren't any less shafted because 3m years ago some people lived in caves 🙄

I think you've got a very loud bee in your bonnet about 'Boomers'
It's comfortable when you can just blame someone else for everything that's wrong in your life, isn't it?
How spiteful and bitter you sound.
I don't know how old you are, but believe me, there will be things that advantage your generation that older and younger generations won't have. It's just the way it works.
We all have things that are good for us historically and bad for us. Why do younger people think they have a monopoly on hardship? They really don't.
It's not easy now, I know (I have 18, 21 and 32 year olds) and it looks as if older people have it better (I have an 87-year-old mum) but honestly, the way you are banging on about 'Boomers' is silly and pathetic.

I think it's helpful to try to understand the perspectives of the two "sides" here. In general, older people will see the sacrifices they made throughout their working lives to support others and believe it's fair that other generations should do the same. While, again in general, younger people derive their feeling of importance by constantly complaining of what victims they are and refusing to even try to understand how much more difficult working life used to be.

I agree with this. You see it time and time again on here. Posters are utterly convinced that they have a monopoly on hardship and suffering and everyone before them has led a charmed life.
Any mention of suffering in the war is irrelevant apparently and attempts to mention the interest rate nightmare of the 1980s are waved aside because they are just not interested in hearing about anyone's suffering but their own.
I am aware that I am generallising here, but then Boomers are not one homogenous mass either.

Yup. MIL never worked again after marrying and having her first child at the age of 21! But she was never shy of complaining the old "I've paid taxes all my life" - utter crap, she barely paid anything and "took out" far more than she paid.

I can't see my Scaffolder Husband being able to work until 70, he didn't make it to 60. Firemen/women, Coppers, roofers etc just won't be ale to continue their jobs.

As do we all. My mum never worked from 30. It's just the way things were.
What do you want to happen?
Have you got any ideas or do you just like complaining about it and being a victim?

How old are these women never working after children ? Lots (most?) women went to work in the '90s for them to have ended their working lives before 1990 they would have to be more than 95.

My mum is 87.