Larger pensions for Civil Servants

tonywiltshire | 15:43 Sat 12th Nov 2011 | Current Affairs

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Civil Servants pensions are funded from state income and are dependent upon, in part, our Tax payments. I wish I could look forward to such generous payments yet they still want more, to be more honest their placards should read, “ give us more of your money”

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factor30

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Civil servants will dispute that: they will claim they contribute to their pensions and that when they took the job the deal was they'd get a lower salary which would be boosted by an attractive pension scheme.

But as someone who has been in the public sector and private sector I can see that their scheme is far more generous than most in the private sector...

15:51 Sat 12th Nov 2011

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tonywiltshire

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If you want to take out what you believe you have been promised, others will have to pay. I think we will have to agree to differ, as I do with the two civil servants that I live with, both teachers earning a high salary; I will have to contribute with their pensions eventually.

dave1948

People are given details of what pension arrangement they will get when they join the scheme. To change the rules in mid-career is totally unfair.

Yes revision of pensions which have become too expensive should have happened years ago but i don't think it is fair to drop people in it without due warning.

Why not just tell everyone that pensions are abolished and they can work until they die ? Just what jobs are there for 65 year olds and what about record numbers of young people being unemployed ? Strikes me that this doesn't make any sense

tonywiltshire

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Boxtops: If the Taxpayer does not top up your pension you will not get very much.

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