Sentences with phrase «average local government pension»
«Despite the rabid tabloid headlines that these pensions are «gold plated», the average local government pension is just # 4,000 - a-year and over half of female NHS employees can expect an average of # 3,500 - a-year — hardly a fortune after a life time of work.
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The truth is that the average public sector pension for women working in local government (and most such workers are women) is just # 54 a week.
The result is that local government workers, faced with an average additional 3 % increase in their contributions which will then yield a much reduced pensions, are likely to abandon the local government pension scheme in droves as no longer worthwhile, thus adding to the State's welfare bill in retirement and perhaps collapsing the investment funds which this pension scheme feeds.
And the TUC says nurses, teachers and local government employees are now paying more on average towards their pensions than they did before reforms.
A national average of $ 6,800 per year per teacher pays former teachers» pensions that state and local governments failed to save up for while those teachers were working.