So this is a #BackTo60 initiative but is not just about 1950s women,it is about ALL females in the UK.We want equality so come on get this petition signed,pass it on,anyone can sign it.
#MakeWomenMatter#CEDAW https://t.co/B1dpsfDGqO
@ScribblerPen It is also #discriminatory as more #men than #women have the option to take early retirement as their #pension pots are far larger on average
And it makes it more difficult for families to care for their very elderly relatives to keep them in their own homes
#50sWomen know
A full-time worker on the UK National Living Wage takes home around £18,600 a year, while a pensioner on the full State Pension receives about £12,548. That leaves many retirees expected to live on thousands less than the lowest-paid workers.
RETIREMENT POVERTY WARNING
@BBC has reported a pensions warning that should alarm millions of workers.
Pensions UK says more than three quarters of workers are not on track for a moderate retirement income.
The figures are brutal.
A moderate retirement lifestyle is now estimated at £32,700 a year for one person, and £45,400 for a couple. Only 23% of working people are on course to reach that level.
A comfortable retirement is now estimated at £45,400 for one person, and £62,700 for a couple. Only 9% of workers are on track for that.
Even the minimum retirement lifestyle now costs around £13,900 for one person and £22,500 for a couple. And even these figures exclude housing costs.
So what does this really mean?
Millions of people are working now, paying bills now, struggling with food, energy, rent, mortgages, childcare, debt, and still being told they must somehow save more for retirement.
If wages stay under pressure, living costs keep rising, and pension saving remains too low, many people will reach retirement and face a cliff edge drop in income.
The pension crisis is already here. Most people just have not reached the edge yet.
https://t.co/7dIg4bOUeL
Only 9% looking at even a moderate pension. £700k needed for 'comfort'. Jobs precarious. Price rises making saving impossible. The financialised neoliberal system is finished but the majority believe it will 'self-correct'. The creditor-rentier class need taking down.
I only started paying into my work pension last September I couldn't afford the 9% salary sacrifice and for the last 10 years I hadn't been on secure contracts. Millions are experiencing the same difficulties. Which is why protecting our State pension is important.
Secretary of State for Work & Pensions to attend settlement talks re ALL #50sWomen! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/rP6no3W1Dl via @Change Big Finger Pull needed ? with Governments >SNATCHING paid 4 N.I. Pensions "BOTH" 4 5Os Working Women & U.K. Old Migrants in NEW ZEALAND!!
@KrisGibson13 thing is hasnt WASPI had three crowd funds up till now, and where has all that money gone, I think they are paying themselves a salarie out of it, after all they are a limited company hence another crowd fund.