Centre for Policy on Ageing



Retirement - a contingency? — the Centre for Policy on Ageing's response to the Government's Green Paper, "Reform of social security", 1985
Corporate Author	Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA
Publisher	Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA, London, 1985
Pages	4 pp
Keywords	Social security benefits ; Services ; Social policy ; Comments or Evidence submitted.
Annotation	At the time of publication of the Government's Green Paper, "Reform of social security", the Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA) was completing its own three-year study of pensions policy (The wage of retirement: the case for a new pensions policy, by Eric Midwinter; CPA, 1985). The CPA uses the conclusions and recommendations of that book in this response. The CPA suggests a five-step, 15 year plan towards a retirement wage, and comments on three areas of the Green Paper: SERPS and occupational pensions; national insurance contributions; and marital status. The CPA considers that problems with the social security system are not so much a fiscal question, of how much can be afforded or how it will be found; rather, it is a large-scale cultural issue. The CPA urges the Government to adopt a straightforward system of single pensions for all - without reference to marital status or other personal arrangements - and to put a proper price upon retirement. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-930804131 P
Classmark	JH: I: TM2: 6PM *
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