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  • olduffer @lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    2 days ago

    I didn’t get the benefit of a final salary pension. I have also not worked long enough at any particular company to really benefit from a big pot. The longest I’ve worked for one company is ten years, I think the company was paying in as little as possible. When I looked at a forecast for the pay out from that one, it was about £100 a month.


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    56 here, I’m in the UK. I have 4 separate ‘private pensions’, from the four different companies I’ve worked for, adding up to fuck all. Basically I’m going to have to work until I’m 67 in order to collect my state pension of £1,049.22 a month. This will allow me to survive on cold baked beans out of a tin, before I freeze to death because I can’t afford to turn on the heating.