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Lip Gloss Nov 2019 9:04am, 3 Nov 2019 36,568 posts	0 Lip Gloss Yeah 67 for me
Rosehip Nov 2019 9:07am, 3 Nov 2019 14,067 posts	0 Rosehip - I'm expecting that the current 67 for me will be 70 by the time I get there! I was lucky that we were very well informed as to the changes by work and that the age at which we could take our FS pension was staggered differently to help. I feel sorry for those who say they didn't know until they got to 60 - but wonder how they hadn't heard, it was a big story for ages in the papers when it was first announced
Ness Nov 2019 9:13am, 3 Nov 2019 10,782 posts	0 Ness State pension age for me is 68, I think.
alpenrose Nov 2019 9:15am, 3 Nov 2019 41,690 posts	0 alpenrose When I finished work it was mentioned that my State pension would come in at 65. I wondered at the time how that was sneaked in as I hadn't heard a thing. It was subsequently moved again to 66 so I'll get it then. I always heard of (particularly) men who'd got to the retirement milestone and died within the first couple of years without having time to enjoy it so if you can go earlier, then go. I'm was surprised how much less I needed to live on from day to day when I stopped working. Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, I don't have any dependents so that helps.
Velociraptor Nov 2019 9:28am, 3 Nov 2019 43,750 posts	0 Velociraptor 67 for both eL Bee! and me as things stand.
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Nov 2019 9:31am, 3 Nov 2019 29,094 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) I was properly caught out, my sister 2 years older than me got hers at 60, I am going to be 2 weeks short of 67! I have taken my very low nhs pension and one other so I could work part time, no way could I afford to go yet at the age of 65, seems so unfair.
Ally-C Nov 2019 9:31am, 3 Nov 2019 692 posts	0 Ally-C I was born in Glasgow, one in four men don’t reach 65.
jda Nov 2019 9:34am, 3 Nov 2019 5,797 posts	0 jda While I won’t attempt to excuse the limited info and publicity surrounding it, the pension equalisation dates from 1995 I think and was long overdue by then. If people want 20 years of retirement then they have to be prepared to pay for it somehow (including drastically reduced consumption as one option).
Ally-C Nov 2019 9:39am, 3 Nov 2019 693 posts	0 Ally-C Moving the goalposts for folk already in was unfair. I’d have scrapped Trident to pay for it. Then increased the age for people joining the workforce.
jda Nov 2019 9:44am, 3 Nov 2019 5,798 posts	0 jda Doubt you’ll find many women arguing that equal pay legislation should only apply to people newly joining the workforce