We now find ourselves being treated as some form of spongers
JANSON BEWEY makes some very salient points in his recent letter about the outrageous suggestion that a pension is a benefit, not a right, although I do not think he went far enough.
When leaving school in 1971 at 15 we were told that by paying a percentage of our salary every week to the pension fund collected by the States of Guernsey we would be able to retire when we were 65 years old and would be able to claim a pension on which we would be able to live out our final years.
We now find ourselves in those final years being treated as some form of spongers, who due to our own mismanagement are asking for a pension to live on, when we should have saved money to fund our own retirement.
This would have been somewhat difficult at the start of my working life with a take home salary of £7.50 per week.
We all worked and paid in as we were expected to, only to find that the goalposts for taking retirement were being moved, to 66, 67, 68, 70+.
Perhaps we are all too placid to fight back against this farce, we only have to look about 28 miles to the east to see what our garlic cousins think of President Macron’s plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, rioting, mayhem, burning tyres, injured policemen, petrol bombs and baton charges.
Guillotine outside the Town Church anyone?
JONATHAN RIVEN
Flat 11
Les Gravees Court
Les Gravees
St Peter Port