Is it itme to totally overhaul pensions in the public sector?

Question

I do not pay a fifth of my council tax to keep their staff to the manner in which they are accustomed AND have to pay for my own retirement as well. Which insidentally has been greatly reduced by Gordon Browns tax raping schemes.

Answer 1

As am employee of the local authroity I'm inclined to say no.

And becuase of so called 'Single Status' proposals I'm going to be worse of for doing the same job so the pension is the only little perk left.

Answer 2

The pension system is a mess and needs sorting but who can we trust to do it?

Answer 3

Yes and we could make a start by raising their retiring age to 65 and then eventualy moving it on up to 70.

I once heard that all the profits and revenues which UK.gov took from North Sea oil, was used to pay the pensions of these over superanuated civil servants, clerks, pen-pushers and all the rest of this army of drones living off our hard labour.

Time to march comrades....

Answer 4

No it is not time to get rid of the public sector pension scheme.  This is part of their salary and from an employment law point of view they would not be able to take the pension away from those who are already members.  If we got rid of it for new entrants then their would have to be an uplift to their salary.  Just because you have no pension does not mean that no one should.  And what about the big banks who pay for their staff to have final salary schemes.  We are paying for those as well.

I am self employed and have to pay for my own pension as well.  The benefits to this is that I decide when i retire not the scheme.  I will retire at 55 10 years before the average public sector worker.

Answer 5

since when did this government do anything right, pensions or otherwise, they get big payoffs when they s***w up and get another job often in a bigger department that pays even more, i find the whole lot, charlatans and cheats, and me and you are paying for it.

Answer 6

In the USA it is time to overhaul all the Corps that hold the pensions for the private sector.

The corp C.E.O.'s get great bonuses and then say they can't afford to fund the retiree pensions. It's called the USA umbrella stuck where the sun doesn't shine pension.

Sears sucks.

Answer 7

Yes it is,it's time for them to pay there own. I see council tax is going up again this year this isn't for extra bin collections but exactly for this, to top up pensions. I don't see why i should pay for other peoples pensions when i cant afford one of my own !! :)

Answer 8

Ye Guy it is, gold plated pensions for civil servants is an anathema in the 21st century.

The term 'index linked' is one of the few things likely to send my blood pressure up.

Answer 9

i'D LOVE to know how much N.I. & Tax we pay from 16-65??

oh and d**n VAT!! Then you receive a lousy pension of peanuts!!! INDUSTRIAL PROSTITUTES IS ALL WE ARE!!

Answer 10

It is as bad in Canada and in the USA.

JOKE:

Must be the fault of the British! ;)

They started the US colonies, and ran Canada until recently.

I think we must reclaim our governments, and our democracy.

The Brits started it all (modern government) with the Magna Carta. So, I am sorry, but the rest of us are waiting for you to do it again.  Yeah, I know, every couple of hundred years, you have to save the world.  Time for another Arthur!

Answer 11

it's time to overhual the whole of Englands public sector!!!

Answer 12

Ah, the politics of envy at work again.

"Someone else has it, I wont it but cant have it, so get rid of it"

And there was me thinking I lived in Great Britain not Cuba.

Answer 13

This is simple; If you want people to do a job or service you have to pay them. if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. The private sector can not run such services as efficiently as the public sector. This is a proven fact. The british Prison private sector are bottom of the league. The public sector prisons (HMP) are high performers. Why dont you concentrate on the politicians, they are also public servants, look at their pay and allowances and pensions. They have it water tight and still some are greedy for more. Do you think public sector staff should work for free?

Answer 14

yes.  while those champagne socialists are awarding themselves double figure annual expenses rises and hob-nobbing it with their counterparts in some provincial french town, frail pensioners, mentally/physically disabled and other vulnerable people are having to make do with scandalous social services support - see jersey / north wales / god knows how many other places