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heapsy wrote:Does anyone out there think as I do? That if this country isn't carefull, there will be a huge pensions crisis in the future, with not enough saved, and an ever increasing burden on the tax payers due to the cost of the benefits we are having to shell out? This is compounded by the fact that there are more and more part-time workers than ever before.
and therein lies one of the fault lines of a Market driven system. Another one is he dependency on a finite energy source. There are dark days ahead I just hope they are far enough off that the politicians can start to take long term policy decisions for the good of all, rather than the short term "get us past the next election" ones they are taking at the moment.
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heapsy wrote:Does anyone out there think as I do? That if this country isn't carefull, there will be a huge pensions crisis in the future, with not enough saved, and an ever increasing burden on the tax payers due to the cost of the benefits we are having to shell out? This is compounded by the fact that there are more and more part-time workers than ever before.
That's one of the reasons Gordon Brown is introducing Personal Accounts in 2012.All workers will be automatically enrolled if they're not already in a pension scheme,although you will be able to opt out!
heapsy wrote:Does anyone out there think as I do? That if this country isn't carefull, there will be a huge pensions crisis in the future, with not enough saved, and an ever increasing burden on the tax payers due to the cost of the benefits we are having to shell out? This is compounded by the fact that there are more and more part-time workers than ever before.
With the part time workers though comes, eventually, the part time pensions - you lot just keep paying in though I don't want to be going short in my ever increasing old age
