Retirement age‘Ludicrous and unfair’: older workers react to pressure to delay retirement

The Guardian ^ | 23rd May 2025 | Jedidajah Otte

[Husker24]

70s isn’t the new 50 if you’ve been doing manual labor.

[Jonty30]

Welcome to financial reality 101.

[ETCM]

suggested a person aged 70 in 2022 had the same cognitive function as the average 53-year-old in 2000.

What absolute hogwash!

[Dogbert41]

If I don’t retire next week I’ll die on the job. Not dying at work if I can help it. 28 years combined in LE, plus 40 credits in SS. I worked hard for both pensions, and I’ll keep busy doing odd jobs later too. But if someone tells me I should forgo any of it for the sake of some 50,000,000 illegals collecting benefits they didn’t earn can go F off.

I’d sure like to hear from DOGE the amount of refunds these illegals get filling BS tax returns with their 30 dependents too.

[Secret Agent Man]

Obviously some people fit this description. But anyone living in the real world knows a significant minority of them, don’t.

[airplaneguy]

bummer for you.

[Brian Griffin]

“I’d sure like to hear from DOGE the amount of refunds these illegals get filling BS tax returns with their 30 dependents too.”

Tax credits should not be refundable.

[vikingd00d]

>>>Governments burdened with historically high levels of public debt, the IMF said, could not afford to let growing numbers of older workers exit the workforce while they were still healthy and able to work.

To governments, we are all Boxer from ‘Animal Farm’. They expect us to work to collapse for their benefit, and when we are no longer useful to them, they’ll sell us to the glue factory for whiskey.

[vmpolesov]

well put

[Drew68]

"We need immigrants to pay for our pensions."

Oops...

"We need your pensions to pay for immigrants."

[magooey]

I worked hard for both pensions ... But if someone tells me I should forgo any of it for the sake of some 50,000,000 illegals collecting benefits they didn’t earn can go F off.

Gee I thought these illegals were supposed to help with retirements by working and paying taxes. Don't tell me that illegal aliens are not paying Social Security taxes, or perhaps not even working at all.

[Jonty30]

Socialism is a scam. They promise, they get you to buy into it. Over time, they remove benefits until they are gone and all you have is debt.

Over and over and over again.

[GaryCrow]

Fugg that. Working until I’m too old to do anything after I retire isn’t in my play book.

[cherry]

I worked a hard job til age 67..my knees are shot...otherwise I would go back to work.

[9YearLurker]

Then maybe time to switch to a less physical job?

[roving]

I’ve worked manual labor all my life. Lifting, pulling, pushing. We had guys who worked there into their 70s but they were awfully slow.

[clearcarbon]

"Governments burdened with historically high levels of public debt, the IMF said, could not afford to let growing numbers of older workers exit the workforce while they were still healthy and able to work. Instead, it argued, governments could encourage workers to delay their retirement, cut early retirement benefits, and increase pension ages to rebalance the increasingly precarious ratio of workers and retirees."

I guess they decided they didn't kill enough seniors with covid and the jab.

[cherry]

It’s all well and good for desk sitters work longer but many jobs are much more demanding..zi am how in agreement that pensions should be drawn no earlier then age 62...

[Uversabound]

Bagged lunch for 35+ years retired at 58❤️