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Re:A world without retirement? by peteretep on Sunday April 02, 2017 @06:11PM (#14019336) 

    > the most basic of subsistence
    > payments, not something we would
    > want seniors to retire with
The full UK pension is £119.30 per week, unemployment benefit (JSA) is: £73.10.
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Re:A world without retirement? by exclusiv on Monday April 03, 2017 @02:29AM (#14020969)
Wow that's nothing. We have state government workers in California getting 90% of their highest salary as long as they live. And some even double dip.
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Re:A world without retirement? by peteretep on Monday April 03, 2017 @03:22AM (#14021132)
State pension is not the same as the Civil Service pension, which would be equivalent to what you're talking about, and can be very good indeed.
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