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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

I was trying to stay out of this argument but couldnt. Public sector workers can if they want at 60 but where I am now you do retire at 60 which if I stay that long will have to do. A hypothetical question is "what does a 60 year old do until the state pension kicks in?" I cant see that many jobs being available and as my pension is not FS but a private pension and therefore succeptable to the whims of brokers on a stockmarket.

I am not knocking your rights but some of us have the opposite and are having to live with it.

I retired 2 years early, had to earn to live. That was down to me I chose to retire, and yes I earned enough to live on, until the "state thing came along"