Kick-start a discussion on old age
The Government is considering raising the retirement age to 67. What is young people's reaction? If they had to choose between retiring earlier with a smaller pension, or working longer and receiving more money, which would they go for?
For many decades, the retirement age for men has been 65 and 60 for women.
This is being equalised. Do young people think this is right?
Talk about what is a reasonable retirement age. Is it fair to ask people who do low-paid, hard physical jobs to work until they are approaching 70? Could there be different retirement ages for different types of worker?
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