@al**bear wrote:

In loads of places in the UK

 

60% of the Populace will NOT even reach retirement age

 

a shocking figure for a suppossed 1st World nation

 

 


I agree Al but the improvement in life expectancy in general over the last 65 years or so makes a mockery of the current retirement age.

 

In 1948 the average man could expect to live for about 10 months after he retired - now it is more like 12 years.