From: "tim \(moved to sweden\)" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Higher earners 'to retire at 70'
Date: 23 May 2005 17:30:16 GMT


"mogga"  wrote in message 
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> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1622625,00.html
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> Higher earners 'to retire at 70'
> Robert Winnett, Whitehall Correspondent
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> UNIVERSITY graduates may be barred from receiving a state pension
> until they are 70 under proposals from Tony Blair's pensions supremo
> to solve the looming crisis.

Well just so long as they ban companies from using age as a
criteria from selecting people for a downsizing exercise that'll be
all right then.
In many graduate jobs if you are still an 'operative' at 60 you
are pushed out as being too old for such a role, so if you want to
carry on working B&Q it is.

tim