Women Born After 1955 Work Until 65!!

Sujamjen

This of course, only applies to us folk who have actually done some paid, taxable work during our working life. It won't effect those that left school at 15/16 and have never had a job (well a legitimate one at any rate) .. you know the ones - they're the ones who seem to have a much higher standard of living than I do!

Downsizing__for_sanity

We did want equality though girls, didn't we? I for one, am not bothered if the one "disadvantage" of being treated equally with men is that we have to work until the same age. I think it just shows how our society is changing - who would have thought in the 1970s that men would be able to take paternity leave? (I saw in the paper yesterday that allegedly 85% of new fathers would stay at home with their baby if it was financially possible!)

DFS

Katykat

To HLC. This rule applies to everyone, male or female. If your retirement age is to be 65, based on an assumtion that you started work or was granted NI contributions from the age of 16, the DWP calculate that you will need to contribute 44 years into the state pension fund to qualify for full state pension. Any NI payments you make further than this are not taken into account. That means that you can stop working ( or paying NI contributions at the age of 60. BUT you cannot claim your pension untill you are 65. In the case of women retireing before 65, the reqirements run pro rata, ie, due to retire at 60, need 39 years, 61, needs 40 years & so on. They do take into account times of your life when you did not contribute, ie if you stopped work to have children, but even then you can now claim contribtions for that time, but THAT is a whole new subject