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Why should public sector be better off?

karens_3 · 2010-11-28 21:48:15

My nan has just retired at 65 after spending her working life doing a variety of cleaning jobs and shop assistant jobs - mostly on the minimum wage. She has to manage now on £97.65 a week. Well, she can't. So she has to do part time work wherever she can get it. I don't see why public sector people should retire at 60 (ha…

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Just_landed Posts: 608 Forumite

10 January 2011 at 1:12PM edited 12 January 2011 at 8:22AM

What most of the civil servants and local government posters on here do not understand is, if they were in a private pension (only paid in to a pension fund by themselves that is what I take as a private pension) they would have to pay at least 3 X the amount into it to get the same level of annuity out and my partner also has life insurance thrown in. I know this because I'm in a private pension and my partner works for Local Governmet.

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