h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm still alive and kicking. (Ask Babette whom I kick )

Like spring rummages, ideas keep popping up in my head.

In six years I'll be able to retire and leave the kids, the union and all other obligations to mind themselves.

I've done my solidaric and democratic duty since I was 18.

Another couple of years of responsibility, and I can do as I please.

I could almost envy you.

six years? you spring you

56 + 6 = 62

62 is early retirement, yet. Depends on how our government works for the next couple of years.

I have another six years to go, also. To reach full retirement age. I need to work as long as I can stand it. I am so burnt out. I'm not sure I can last here another 6 years.

I'm already counting the years to retirement, and there are quite a few to go.

In reality, when I reach my mid-60s we'll all be working until we drop, I suspect.

>>when I reach my mid-60s we'll all be working until we drop, I suspect.<<

But I suspect you are right.

The same here. Though I am afraid I'll drop before I reach mid-60ies. Anyway, that's my pension plan. By the looks of it, our government doesn't have a better plan either.

My pension-plan is to drive of Beachy Head when I reach retirement age.

Driving Chitty Bang Bang, I hope.

oh no! Now I've got an EarWorm.

My library pension is already vested, and I can start collecting it at age 60, which will be in 3 weeks. I can also get a widow's pension at age 60 from my husband's SS account. So if I get sick or injured and can't work, at least there will be an income. But it will only be about half as much as I'll collect if I can work until age 66. That is the full retirement age for my age group in the US now.

Here the retirement age is 63 years. Then again, we have quite low average life expectancy.

The earliest age here to collect social security retirement benefits has always been 62. But you take a reduction in benefits if you take it at that age. The regular retirement age and the age for getting the government medical insurance was 65. But several years ago they started adjusting the age upwards. It is now 66 for someone my age and 67 for people younger than I am. But I'm not sure how much younger. We can still get the medical insurance, I think, at 65. I need to find that out.

67 would be very clever here as the life expectancy for men is 67 years. The retirement age used to be 55 for women and 60 for men but it has been lifted gradually for 12 or 13 years, reaching 63 for everybody now.

That's interesting. I'm not sure what the life expectancy here is for men or women either one. Must google it to find out. But I think it is older than 67.

According to this list, The US is #45 and Estonia is #112.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

US is 75.15 for men and 80.97 for women.

So, having lived more than half my life here in jolly ol' Deutschland, so I take their life-expectancy, or that of the UK? Or do I have to do complicated maths stuff and work it out according to how long I've been where?

Retirement age here used to be from 65 onwards, with huge losses if you retired before that. Now, it's 67 for those younger than me, I) think I'll have to work at least until I'm 66 (probably longer).
However, apparently you can still retire at 65 without losses if you've paid for at least 45 years.

I was wondering about that, Sho. Do I get to choose between the UK life expectancy and the Irish one, or does it depend on how I vote?