» Friday, September 21, 2007Age of Retirement
Asked why the Government wanted nurses to retire at 60 years of age, when the aim was to raise the retirement age to 68 eventually, the PMS said that there were two separate issues here: the age when people receive the state pension, and when public sector and private sector employees retire. The PMS said that the Government was not saying that people should work until they were 68; they were simply saying that the state pension age would be 68 and that’s when people became entitled to it. In terms of when people actually retire, it was a contractual matter between them and their employers. So in relation to the public sector, there were well established contractual arrangements between employees and the Government about when people should retire, as would be the case with people who work for private companies. Briefing took place at 11:00 | Search for related news Original PMOS briefings are © Crown Copyright. Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland. Click-use licence number C02W0004089. Material is reproduced from the original 10 Downing Street source, but may not be the most up-to-date version of the briefings, which might be revised at the original source. Users should check with the original source in case of revisions. Comments are © Copyright contributors. Everything else is © Copyright Downing Street Says. |
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