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Title: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 01, 2017, 09:20:55 am
I wonder : What % of people die early on, who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system and never had received anything back.

or the same for those  who may have only lived a few years into retirement..so they only received back a small % back to what had been paid in..

or if it was passed onto their spouse/ Husband / or partner and if they only then lived on a few years.

Someone once suggested to me that on average that the % of people who LIVE on 5 to 10 or more years, if say they retire at 65 years is quite Low.

This is just the standard Government Pension.. that as far as I know is equal to everyone... not like company pensions that can vary considerably ...often dependent upon ones profession earnings , status etc..

So How much are Governments receiving V paying out I wonder ?

I came across this post that  may be of interest to anyone who reads it,  if its not already been discussed in similar detail.

I wonder what % of any population pay into the Governments pension system and pass away before they reach retirement age without ever obtaining anything back from the system that they paid into..

I assume also that none of their entitlement also gets passed on to their family members other than to the spouse or partner (and only when they retire (which on average may be 10 to 20 years worth) (not sure if the get the full or part pension)) and only until they pass away. Which no doubt varies as to how long they live on...

But if they were to both pass away in a relatively short time.. as far as I know, it does not get passed onto their children in any way.

Then also what about the people who have paid in the system towards th benefits system that never have claimed anything ...

Should their be an issue if later their Children claim benefits ?

Maybe its relevant, but I believe that they certainy should be entitled to a certain % without being accusted of just being a scrounger..that many may often have suggested...as some people do not agree that people should be allowed benefits !


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I believe that This applies to the UK and certain other Countries as well :-

collected Social Security?

KEEP PASSING THIS AROUND UNTIL
EVERY ONE HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ IT...
THIS IS SURE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!!!!

THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THE
GOVERNMENT'S CALCULATION OF AVAILABLE SOCIAL SECURITY IS THEY FORGOT
TO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY EVER COLLECTED A SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK!!!

WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?

Remember, not only did you and I contribute to Social Security but your employer did, too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes.

If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to$220,500.
Read that again.

Did you see where the Government paid in one single penny?

We are talking about the money you and your employer put in a Government bank to insure you and me that we would have a retirement check from the money we put in, not the Government.

Now they are calling the money we put in an entitlement when we reach the age to take it back.

If you calculate the future invested value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% interest (less than what the Government pays on the money that it borrows).

After 49 years of working you'd have$892,919.98.

If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit!

If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.

THE FOLKS IN WASHINGTON HAVE PULLED OFF A BIGGER PONZI SCHEME THAN BERNIE MADOFF EVER DID.

Entitlement my foot; I paid cash for my social security insurance!

Just because they borrowed the money for other government spending, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!!

Remember the benefits for members of Congress?

+ free healthcare,
+ outrageous retirement packages,
+ 67 paid holidays,
+ three weeks paid vacation,
+ unlimited paid sick days.


Now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social security retirement payments entitlements?


They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives, and now, when it's time for us to collect, the government is running out of money.

Why did the government borrow from it in the first place? It was supposed to be in a locked box, not part of the general fund.


Sad isn't it?
99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.
I'm in the 1%
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: Irene on September 01, 2017, 09:58:39 am
When you are getting ready to retire you fill out a few forms. One of the questions asks if you want to allow your heirs to collect after your death or if you want benefits to cease at your death.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 01, 2017, 10:05:48 am
If so, I assume that most people would opt for their heirs to receive.. and I also assume it only gets paid to the Spouce or Husband or partner.. not to their Children or relatives...

When you are getting ready to retire you fill out a few forms. One of the questions asks if you want to allow your heirs to collect after your death or if you want benefits to cease at your death.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: Irene on September 01, 2017, 10:08:10 am
If so, I assume that most people would opt for their heirs to receive.. and I also assume it only gets paid to the Spouce or Husband or partner.. not to their Children or relatives...

The retiree specifies who he wants it to go to. If he doesn't, it goes to the spouse, then the children.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: Somamech on September 01, 2017, 10:52:21 am
Good question!

It would be an amazing piece of economic journalism for someone to take the time to expose that one aspect of Pension Fund's mate!

Here in Australia, we have whats called Superannuation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia

For most people and even myself, I let some big corporation invest my money, which the government also taxes per individual.  Great deal huh?  :D





Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: Somamech on September 01, 2017, 10:55:40 am
Life expectancy at 65

https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-65.htm

Sorry this link will not answer the question, but at least these are links that data are driven from

https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-65.htm

Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: Somamech on September 01, 2017, 11:12:48 am
In australia this is not an answer to your great question as I doubt the data is out there in public.

But Super/Pension is forgotten about!  Here's a warning from the aussie taxation office in 2014:

New statistics reveal $14 billion in lost super

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New statistics released this week by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) reveal that more than $14 billion in lost super is waiting to be claimed.

Assistant Commissioner John Shepherd says that of particular concern are the billions of dollars sitting in super accounts where funds have lost contact with the owner.

“There’s over $6 billion of super sitting in accounts where funds have not been kept up-to-date with changes to personal details,” said Mr Shepherd.

“It’s easy for this to happen because when people get married or move house, the last thing on their mind is updating their name and address details with a super fund.”

“It is also important to make sure your super fund has your tax file number, this will allow us to display your super accounts online and help reunite you with your super,” he said.

An additional $8 billion in super is sitting in accounts that have not received a contribution in five years or more.

“More than 40 per cent of super account holders have more than one account. Many of these additional accounts have not received a contribution for quite some time, and those with small balances can be eroded by super fund fees and charges.” said Mr Shepherd.

“We see many people failing to take advantage of their ability to choose a fund when they start a new job. Instead, they end up opening up a new account with a different fund each time they change jobs.”

Now is an ideal time to check if you have any lost or ATO held super accounts by creating a myGov account and linking to the ATO. Since 1 July 2014, we have already helped Australians consolidate 49,000 super accounts online.

“After you’ve electronically lodged your tax return, it only takes a minute to use SuperSeeker and check out whether you have any accounts that can be rolled into your main one,” said Mr Shepherd.

“Using SuperSeeker’s simple online form you can also roll super accounts that you no longer need into one and in most cases it only takes three days for a fund-to-fund transfer.”

“It's an easy way to reduce unnecessary fees and make the most of your retirement savings,” he said.

SOURCE:

https://www.ato.gov.au/Media-centre/Media-releases/New-statistics-reveal-$14-billion-in-lost-super/
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: ArMaP on September 01, 2017, 01:48:37 pm
In Portugal things don't work like that, as soon as you start paying Social Security (which means as soon as you start working) you have access to most benefits, but the retirement pension is based on how many years you worked before retirement and how much were you paying.

In my case I'm too young to get a retirement pension. If I asked for a partial disability pension I would get roughly half of my salary, but I would need a doctor's certificate to prove I have some kind of disability
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 01, 2017, 01:49:30 pm
I will have to try to find out if Children can have their parents Govt Pension past onto them in the U.K, but as far I am aware it can only be past on to ones Partner..(Spouse or Husband)

and I may even be mistaken about that... as that may only apply to a Private or Company pension.

If you can have a deseased Parents GOVERMENT pension  past onto ones Children  in North America  (USA / Canada) that  is interesting to know.

But would that only be when the Children become pension age..or at what age ?  as otherwise how long would they get it  for... if the Parents passed away when either the Children were young...be it say between age 1 to 16 years... or after they are working age..  Theres no way I can imagine that they would get monthly pay out over their working life.. but maybe they would get a lump sum payout...

I suspect that with it being a standard GOVT pension that all Employees pay into... that also it would not matter if the Parent had made out a Will or not !


The retiree specifies who he wants it to go to. If he doesn't, it goes to the spouse, then the children.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 01, 2017, 02:04:02 pm
Thanks for your comments / feedback Somamech.

I think yes it maybe a difficult to obtain a satifactary answer to this question ! ...as well as maybe varying dependent upon ones Country...

(I am adding in this link as It refers to something later that I think should have been included in the 1st post.. but this is the only one that I can still modify at the time I am writing that is closest to the first post and at least will show up on  1st page of posts..) as I think it is important to try to explain..

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=10586.msg139577#msg139577   
............

I thought somewhere that I had come across data and maybe a suitable type of chart that showed the average % of people who die from say the age of 65 to 90..or at least in 5 year intervals after age of 65 years..

I came across the UK National Statisics website that seems to have a lot of related type of material on it, but I find some of it quite complex or complicated to try to understand.

It may take quite a bit of research, study , and thought time to try to come to a suitable conclusion if it is possible..

This is only for egs in the UK, but it maybe similar % wise in most of  the Western World Countries..

then there are other things like comparing to past years.. as to what the % was like say  over the last 100 years at say 10 year intervals.. and maybe also how some areas will vary in ones own country.. as for eg some citys in the North of England generall will not live as long as those in the South of England...

On Average for what ever reason the Southerners seem to have  better options...education..more chance of good employment  etc.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/lifeexpectancies/bulletins/nationallifetablesunitedkingdom/2014-03-21

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/lifeexpectancies/bulletins/lifeexpectancyatbirthandatage65bylocalareasintheunitedkingdom/2014-04-16

Somamech
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In australia this is not an answer to your great question as I doubt the data is out there in public.

But Super/Pension is forgotten about!  Here's a warning from the aussie taxation office in 2014:

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Good question!

It would be an amazing piece of economic journalism for someone to take the time to expose that one aspect of Pension Fund's mate!

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For most people and even myself, I let some big corporation invest my money, which the government also taxes per individual.  Great deal huh?  :D



Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: Irene on September 01, 2017, 02:09:38 pm
I will have to try to find out if Children can have their parents Govt Pension past onto them in the U.K, but as far I am aware it can only be past on to ones Partner..(Spouse or Husband)

and I may even be mistaken about that... as that may only apply to a Private or Company pension.

If you can have a deseased Parents GOVERMENT pension  past onto ones Children  in North America  (USA / Canada) that  is interesting to know.

But would that only be when the Children become pension age..or at what age ?  as otherwise how long would they get it  for... if the Parents passed away when either the Children were young...be it say between age 1 to 16 years... or after they are working age..  Theres no way I can imagine that they would get monthly pay out over their working life.. but maybe they would get a lump sum payout...

I suspect that with it being a standard GOVT pension that all Employees pay into... that also it would not matter if the Parent had made out a Will or not !

In the US, when the retiree dies the private pension payments to the spouse or children begin immediately. They do not have to wait until retirement.

Children are also eligible for Social Security payments under certain circumstances, but I don't know what the requirements are.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 01, 2017, 02:17:57 pm
When you say Retirement Pension is based on how many years you work and  much you are paying in...

Does this refer to Government Pension ? ... as I thought in the U.K Employees all paid in the same and obtained the same amount on retirement...

It is only on a Private (and maybe a Company) Pension that you can pay in more as far as I was aware !

It maybe that many other Countries incl the USA do not have a  Government pension and have had to have Company or private pensions..

In Portugal things don't work like that, as soon as you start paying Social Security (which means as soon as you start working) you have access to most benefits, but the retirement pension is based on how many years you worked before retirement and how much were you paying.

In my case I'm too young to get a retirement pension. If I asked for a partial disability pension I would get roughly half of my salary, but I would need a doctor's certificate to prove I have some kind of disability
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: Irene on September 01, 2017, 02:20:13 pm
When you say Retirement Pension is based on how many years you work and  much you are paying in...

Does this refer to Government Pension ? ... as I thought in the U.K Employees all paid in the same and obtained the same amount on retirement...

It is only on a Private (and maybe a Company) Pension that you can pay in more as far as I was aware !

It maybe that many other Countries incl the USA do not have a  Government pension and have had to have Company or private pensions..

In my case, I was a government employee, so I get my pension through the agency I worked for. This is separate from Social Security, which kicks in as early as 62.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 01, 2017, 02:24:02 pm
Do you only have Private Pensions in USA / Canada Irene ?

or do they have Governemnt pensions also ?

The initial article I was referring to I thought was based on Government pensions ...(Both USA and U.K and certain others) that we do have in the U.K..and have had for many years..

I am not too well up on Private type pensions as there are several types that you can take out..and Company pensions also vary...

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In the US, when the retiree dies the private pension payments to the spouse or children begin immediately. They do not have to wait until retirement.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: Irene on September 01, 2017, 02:28:03 pm
Do you only have Private Pensions in USA / Canada Irene ?

or do they have Governemnt pensions also ?

The initial article I was referring to I thought was based on Government pensions ... that we do have in the U.K..and have had for many years..

I am not too well up on Private type pensions as there are several types that you can take out..and Company pensions also vary...

Private pensions through corporate entities are usually 401k accounts. Then there are government pensions for government workers, and Social Security is for all retirees.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 01, 2017, 02:30:14 pm
I see !

Our last posts were made almost together and you answered my last question to you..

In the U.K they have now increased the retirement age to 67/68  :(  from what was 65..

although there are or were possible ways to take early retirement or on just a % of the full pension amount..

Irene
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In my case, I was a government employee, so I get my pension through the agency I worked for. This is separate from Social Security, which kicks in as early as 62.

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Private pensions through corporate entities are usually 401k accounts. Then there are government pensions for government workers, and Social Security is for all retirees.

Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: Irene on September 01, 2017, 02:33:06 pm
Same here in the US. They keep raising the retirement age.

The way we're going you'll be able to retire as soon as you're dead.  ::)
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 01, 2017, 03:18:10 pm
I am trying to think how to explain more easily what it is that I have tried to understand in terms of how long a % of people will live for or at what age a set % will die ..

and of the top of my head as I think it may have now have thought it out more clearly... I will try to give an eg.

If say its suggested that the average person should live for 80 to 90 years in the Western World... and we had a Population of say 1 million or  10 Million or 100 Million born in the next year....


How many will reach 90 years old ?

I think one of the Govt sites that I posted was suggesting about 6% make it to 85 years old...as an eg..


and that it may had indicated about 18% either make it or die at 65...

but I am not fully clear on it as yet and not sure that it properly describes the way some of the data is listed.

maybe I have just not managed to read it in enough detail to take note...

and How many will reach 85,  80 , 75, 70, 65, 60 years old ..

or maybe even include 55, 50, 45, 40, 35, 30 years old and so on....

Then somehow show this on a chart..

As the initial post was wondering How many person die before the age of 65 years old... who had paid in all their working life to the Govt pension system..

That means that if we added up all the % that die before the age of 65 years...

and then look on average how many of them make the age of 70, 75, 80 , 85 and 90 or more.

I imagine that all of those people who die before 65 will be a lot more than those who make it over 65...

or am I likely wrong ?

I think A suitable Chart would help try to decipher things..

What I am not sure is if the Govt are sort of sugesting that most of them would make it to 80 years old.. provided things remain similar conditions over the next 80 years...

But I suspect a lareg % of those 10 million would die before 65 years..

Could it be 50%   in total say for eg... or less or more ?

If we took the population for everyone today who are at varying ages now and not just been born..

I also wonder how that would work out ?

so for eg we have people at all ages for those who are still under 65... and a certain % now over 65...who hope to make it to 80 or more...

But of all those who have worked and paid in to the system...
and dont make pension age..

What has been paid in to the pension system.

The other thing to consider is also if a person does not make it to 65.. they wont have paid in the maximum amount that may had been expected of them into the system.

Only those who made it to 65 did or have done...!

But it may be that those who have died along the way to 65 .. that it may well be to have a large %,  say have made it to over 50 years old and they will have paid in a fair amount to the system ...

In terms of a statisical excercise, I think it would be interesting to compare !




Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: Irene on September 01, 2017, 03:23:06 pm
My brother was a government employee his entire life, so he paid into the state pension fund. He died at 53 and no one collected a dime of it.

He was divorced and had not designated a beneficiary. WHAT A WASTE.

Astro, use a search engine to find the information you're looking for. I'm sure someone else has already done the legwork on that.

 :)
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 01, 2017, 03:31:12 pm
Sorry to read that Irene.. :(


But this is exactly part of the / a topic  eg of what I was trying to refer to...and the point of the post...


Yes I would be surprised if such a set of statisics was not available somewhere that one can believe.. and that its not some Govt misleading info...

Its probably something that is not greatly or easily to obtain or try to grasp...

Maybe some other members may also come across such info and post it...if I cannot find a suitable option.

My brother was a government employee his entire life, so he paid into the state pension fund. He died at 53 and no one collected a dime of it.

He was divorced and had not designated a beneficiary. WHAT A WASTE.

Astro, use a search engine to find the information you're looking for. I'm sure someone else has already done the legwork on that.

 :)
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: ArMaP on September 01, 2017, 04:19:58 pm
When you say Retirement Pension is based on how many years you work and  much you are paying in...

Does this refer to Government Pension ? ... as I thought in the U.K Employees all paid in the same and obtained the same amount on retirement...
I was talking about State Pensions, the only ones that cover all workers in Portugal.

In Portugal, every worker pays 11% of their salary to the Social Security, every employer pays 23% (I think) of the worker's salary, so someone that gets 1000€ per month gives 110€ from those 1000€ to the Social Security, while the employer gives 230€.

The minimum number of years prevents people from getting retirement pensions too early (retirement is only at 67 years old) and how much people paid (directly related to how big their salary was) compensates those that paid more, which, to me, is a little unfair.

The positive side is that everybody has almost free health care, paid by everybody's contributions.

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It is only on a Private (and maybe a Company) Pension that you can pay in more as far as I was aware !
As far as I understand it, private pension funds work like a mix of the Portuguese system and the insurance system, people can pay more or less and get more or less coverage, according to how much they pay, but as I'm not interested in subscribing one of those systems I never thought of seeing how it works.

As far as I know, we don't have company pensions, unless it's state company, as state companies have a Social Security of their own.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: ArMaP on September 01, 2017, 04:36:57 pm
Yes I would be surprised if such a set of statisics was not available somewhere that one can believe.. and that its not some Govt misleading info...
If you don't trust government data then you wouldn't be able to get trusted data, as that's the type of data only governments can get, as it needs a large data collection, something that only the state can do.

Regardless of being trustworthy or not, see if this (http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160105202750/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/death-reg-sum-tables/2013/sty-mortality-rates-by-age.html) is what you want. :)

PS: you can get an idea of your own data, just think of how many people you know that have died and how old they were.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: The Seeker on September 01, 2017, 06:07:54 pm
I don't remember the exact demographics, but women live an average of 10 years longer than men; the group that gets the least out of retirement in the US are black men; on average they die within 1-2 years of retiring
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: robomont on September 01, 2017, 11:40:44 pm
from my perspective.3%,suicides and accidents.most in 18-25.then long stretch with 50ish being cancer.70 being hearts.50% dead buy 75.
this should go down as radar has been outed as culprit.white sugar being next primary poison.vaccines being third killer.
doctors killing out of ignorance being number 4.imho
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 02, 2017, 10:47:53 am
Thanks for all the follow up comments.

As a quick update on one thing that I refeered to about a link that I posted... that I thought was telling what % may had died at age 65 and 85 years....

I referred to figures of about 18/20% at 65 and 6% at 80 or 85....

I think after re reading that it meant that it meant that it was the amount of extra years that one would live to make it to somewhere between the age of 80 to 90 yrs old.

In ref to your comments ArMaP...

I suppose that I should mention that I have never really studied the Pension system... When I was younger I just left it to my past employers and the Govt when I used to trust them !...

and I thought that unless I was willing to pay into my own Private Pension which I sort of was later a bit wary about during my past years... that  I would only study pensions more nearer middle age...

or when I got around to thinking that I wanted to know more.

So I have forgot some of the specific details that I was at one time made aware about..

The other thing is, during some of the mass unemployment times in the UK... Thinking about Pensions was not a priority.. and one may even question if it was worth considering as maybe they did not think that they will live long enough to get to pension age !..

For some people..Maybe if one makes it, its a bonus !  :) at least in terms of their extra time added to their life in years...
but they may not have gone about creating best pension options or ways to obtain money to best enjoy those later years...

...and as discussed... a set % of people will not make it and pay in and not obtain the benefits...

so maybe taking out a pension can be a 50 % or more gamble..  (I wonder what the % really is in reality if its worked out mathamatically ??? )

Its great if it all worked out if you make it..and you are able to get a good pension, no doubt...

Those who did not mamage to do the best optons for a good pension may well regret it..

Also there was some years where I did think that the economy was going to decline... certainly between 2000 to 2009..

in which pensions could and did fail...

but since 2009... the economy AMAZINLY recovered remarkably since.. especially now since Donald Trump seems to have saved it..maybe !...

(But I think that I have found another reason why it remained strong, but thats another story and only my opinion)

those who are on good high paying  private type / or maybe work related  pensions , usually have the better paid jobs or were willing to risk paying more into one...

I will have to take a bit of time TRYING! to research various related things if I can.

Initially I want to try to refer to the recent past UK State Pension values....not the New recent ones, that I am at the moment less familiar with.

What may make it now a bit more difficult to research, is that the UK Government have recently changed the system..and it seems on doing a quick search, many of the websites I have come across on a quick search,  seem to relate to the new system... so I will have to search for old documents to compare. and try to find the OLDER figures..

But as an example... I seem to recall maybe a mans pension was say about 120 Pounds a week...and I thought that was standard...

BUT

Your description of Workers paying in 11% of their Salary and the Employer paying maybe about 23%, I think I recall seems similar to remind me of an amount to some valued figures that a worker may have paid in the UK..but I am not sure if that was purely based on an individuals earnings (which would vary)

But I THINK...or thought that the % that they pay in.. was not purely based on what they earn..

The reason as I thought that there was a standard state pension for men and Women. where men obtained more.

But whether that is including the part that the Employer pays in.. I am not fully sure ...but if it is a set standard figure for all, I imagine that it would have to be..

Maybe just having a standard pension would not seem to make sense... and your description with (Workers paying 11% Emplrys paying 23% of a persons salary) may seem more  how one would imagine it should really be.

This is ONE eg that I found that relates roughly to the figure that I thought that it used to be... (I have not as yet read it and studied it to be sure about the article).... I just came across and skimmed thru the article and found these figures that I seemed to recall.

This article was making some comparison to the Old and New Pension... and I think the new pension only came in last year.

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The Chancellor announced that the basic state pension paid to current pensioners would rise by £3.35 to £119.30 a week in April. The “single-tier” pension paid to those who retire after that date will be £155.65 a week, he said.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/12023209/The-gap-between-the-new-and-old-state-pension-is-finally-clear-a-cool-1900-per-year.html


In ref to National Insurance payments..

Upon having a quick look at Wikapedias version, it all seems quite complex and also maybe updated to the NEWER System.. and Im not sure that I could find a version of the older NAt Ins system to compare.. It would be a bit of a challenege unless one is familiar with it and maybe not a topic many really want to try to read about...

but somewhere it may contain similar figures to what you referred to.... on the 11 % workers pay and the 23% the employer pays in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Insurance


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I was talking about State Pensions, the only ones that cover all workers in Portugal.

In Portugal, every worker pays 11% of their salary to the Social Security, every employer pays 23% (I think) of the worker's salary, so someone that gets 1000€ per month gives 110€ from those 1000€ to the Social Security, while the employer gives 230€.

The minimum number of years prevents people from getting retirement pensions too early (retirement is only at 67 years old) and how much people paid (directly related to how big their salary was) compensates those that paid more, which, to me, is a little unfair.

The positive side is that everybody has almost free health care, paid by everybody's contributions.

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    It is only on a Private (and maybe a Company) Pension that you can pay in more as far as I was aware !

As far as I understand it, private pension funds work like a mix of the Portuguese system and the insurance system, people can pay more or less and get more or less coverage, according to how much they pay, but as I'm not interested in subscribing one of those systems I never thought of seeing how it works.

As far as I know, we don't have company pensions, unless it's state company, as state companies have a Social Security of their own.


What you say is or may be correct..as thinking about it, its only likely that the Government have such data.... but the big question would be are they telling us the truth ! I would think.

Its unlikely that anyone else could obtain the real data... unless somehow they were able to obtain all the death records and record them somehow..which I think would be a huge task.
and the Death records departments will probably all be connected to the Govt.

That chart link that you refer to may be what I am looking for..

I may need a bit of study and time to try and look at it...

but thanks for posting it !  8)

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PS..As a quick update on one thing that I refeered to about a link that I posted... that I thought was telling what % may had died at age 65 and 85 years....

I referred to figures of about 18/20% at 65 and 6% at 80 or 85....

I think after re reading that it meant that it meant that it was the amount of extra years that one would live to make it to somewhere between the age of 80 to 90 yrs old
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If you don't trust government data then you wouldn't be able to get trusted data, as that's the type of data only governments can get, as it needs a large data collection, something that only the state can do.

Regardless of being trustworthy or not, see if this is what you want. :)

PS: you can get an idea of your own data, just think of how many people you know that have died and how old they were.

Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: ArMaP on September 02, 2017, 12:01:47 pm
One more thing about the Portuguese system: what we pay to Social Security is used by healthcare, retirement pensions, disability pensions, unemployment benefits, etc.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 02, 2017, 01:07:36 pm
what you say is probably similar to the UK and many other countries...

I did include benefits in the title of the thread and had not as yet got around to saying much about that ...

but may do so later !

Initially I thought I would start with the Pension system.

But as a very basic eg of the UK system to start with is say what a single person may get on just a very basic level with no other commitments to have to pay for...

is it was about 78 pounds a week...

Obviously if you then consider Married persons that usually or often includes rent or morgage and Children  payments... then the system pays out more to them..and it may also pay the Spouse or husband if they also do not work.

No doubt often they may seem to get the better deal..
and other benefits...and have obtained more money from the system...

Some single  may question is that fair ?

or how long should they pay it out for ?

Some people will have had all their morgage or rent paid for several years...

where as some single people if they have to find somewhere to live..ie they dont have a partner , friend or parents to live with..

can end up on the street very easily !  as they probably  cannot even afford to pay any rent..

or at least it was like that at one time..

I dont think its changed for the better as far as I am aware.

and the sytem is now a utter nightmare if your disabled or unfit to work.. on what in the UK is Employment support allowance..

If you dont work but need to clam benefits..your forced to have a medical...

which many may disagree with..

if they disagree that your not unfit for work and you do not agree to sign on to agree your fit enough to work on another type of benefits called either Job Seekers, or Universal credit..

then you will not get any benefits at all ?

Not even a small ammount to pay for food without having to almost beg for it...then your put thru a load of messing about..that is somewhat degrading..

They brought that in after the 2008 Economic crash..

with the suggestion tat they needed to save money..
in which it may well be that they have now saved a great deal.. to what they used to pay out as they have now changed the system even more and actualy got more people in work with some new methods.

SOME admittedly seem positive...which surprised me.

But at the same time some of their tatics are out of order in my opinion.

for eg they now want you searching for work almost the same amount of time you would have a 40 hr job..

they want MUCH  more time and effort from a Claiment in order for them to obtain benefits...

so much so many people have now taken jobs rather than claim..

The more positive side being that they have increased the minimum wage which may make working a better accepted deal that claiments will now accept better..

but they do also have a lot of jobs that limit ones hours..

so thats the bad side of accepting many jobs that are now available to what they were..

Some Jobs that offer limited hour contracts can be made up with partial benefits.. which may seem a accepted deal..

but you have to be careful..

as if you have some issues and get sacked.. I think in some cass you have to await 26 weeks before you can claim benefits.. or its used to be the case a few years ago...

I need to recheck on that if I can..

PLUS until Brexit and maybe still so... workers are competing wit many Migrants and imigrants who had ( and many still are ) come into the Country..

It never used to be that bad as far as I recall since the 1930s.

but thats another indepth part to the topic..


What I would really like to know as an end result if it was ever possible.... is when taking all the payments made into the system V Benefits and pension etc payouts....

How  does it compare I wonder ?

Does the Government have a large pot unaccounted for where they have not informed the public ?  :-\


One more thing about the Portuguese system: what we pay to Social Security is used by healthcare, retirement pensions, disability pensions, unemployment benefits, etc.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: ArMaP on September 02, 2017, 01:17:09 pm
Is healthcare free (or almost) in the UK? If it is, who pays for it and how?
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 02, 2017, 01:36:21 pm
I added some further comments to my last post that you may had missed.

Yes some (Most General type GP Doctors /  Hospital treatment  ) healthcare is Free..

There are other things that you have to pay for private..

in the UK the NHS... National Health Service is Free..

so you can go to a Doctor or hospital and get treatment.

You can get free dental treatment if on benefits.. but if your working you have to pay..

I can only imagine the taxes / National Insurance pays towards it..as far as I am aware..

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NHS Funding
NHS Spending 1948/49-2014/15[26]

The systems are 98.8% funded from general taxation and National Insurance contributions, plus small amounts from patient charges for some services.[27][28] About 10% of GDP is spent on health and most is spent in the public sector.[29] The money to pay for the NHS comes directly from taxation. The 2008/9 budget roughly equates to a contribution of £1,980 per person in the UK.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service

or maybe much of it had been paid for over the past generations..but the Govt may not tell the truth..

but they often have said that the NHS has been in crisis.. and needed more money.

They had made a LOT of cutbacks and changes at varying times over the last 10 to 20 years.. and closed some hospitals or parts of them...

But I found someone who had given an example of our water rates and they claims that they had found out PAST generations have actually paid for the Water treatment we have today....but we still get charged for it..

Obviosly theres maintenence costs each year, wages to pay etc each year.. 

I think also that are now Privitised and people / customers purchase shares in the Company where as in the past it was nationalised...or purely ran by the Govt for the people..

But they claim.. in reality that the Water Utilities companies has the money to offer its all for free and we really should not need to be paying what we do..

this MAy apply to other services as well...

and its only what they claim to have discovered..

I dont know for sure if what they say is fully truth !..

If it is... then we have been paying out a LOT of money to pay for it over the years..


Is healthcare free (or almost) in the UK? If it is, who pays for it and how?
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: ArMaP on September 02, 2017, 01:55:10 pm
I added some further comments to my last post that you may had missed.
That's why I avoid doing that, and when I do I marked what I changed so people understand what was changed and don't have to read everything again, looking for differences.

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or maybe much of it had been paid for over the past generations..
Really? We are not talking about a house or a car.

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But I found someone who had given an example of our water rates and they claims that they had found out PAST generations have actually paid for the Water treatment we have today....but we still get charged for it..

Obviosly theres maintenence costs each year, wages to pay etc each year.. 
Sure there's maintenance and wages and other fixed expenses, but do you think they still use the same equipment and methods used 40 years ago?

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But they claim.. in reality that the Water Utilities companies has the money to offer its all for free and we really should not need to be paying what we do..
Anyone can claim any thing.
Title: Re: What % of people die early on who Paid into the Pension and Benifits system.
Post by: astr0144 on September 02, 2017, 02:28:50 pm
Fair point.... I will try to consider that in the future.

But sometimes, I either add in small parts that I either ammend or add in here and there..

If I add in new content... I may try to highlight that in the future..

Sometimes one is rushing and has only a set time to ammend a post..

Whether one wants to reread something may depend if it may be relevant to them at the time..maybe..

Not sure if other members do it.. will have to try to note.

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That's why I avoid doing that, and when I do I marked what I changed so people understand what was changed and don't have to read everything again, looking for differences.

As I added in some new content , I may have mixed up somethings from a prior point that I was writing / ammending.


Initally I was referring that the Water Utilities may have already been paid for..but I also suggested that it MAY be possible that it could also be similar to the NHS or other services...  IF things have been similar in the past to had raised the money to had paid for say as an eg..most of the Hospital buildings as an eg..obviously the inner workings in the Hospitals now has the latest technology that in many cases is a huge expense


but the benefits do or did  pay for peoples rent or morgage..

maybe the morgage only for so long now...but at ne time it was for many years.... there are some people who have not worked for years had children and had much of their morgae paid... IT maybe that at some time that they have to pay it back..

and in many a case if you live long enough... and have to go in a care home ...based upon the remaining Husband or Wife who may require Nursing care... the family if still alive or the Children.. may have to sell the persons property to pay for their care fees..

I dont think that includes their car...but often they do have spare money to pay at least for a 2nd hand car..if not one on credit / monthly finance..

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Really? We are not talking about a house or a car.

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Quote     or maybe much of it had been paid for over the past generations..


NO... If they have made such a lot of moeny no doubt they can afford new equipment...

but at the moment we are also still paying towards it..

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    But I found someone who had given an example of our water rates and they claims that they had found out PAST generations have actually paid for the Water treatment we have today....but we still get charged for it..

    Obviosly theres maintenence costs each year, wages to pay etc each year.. 

Sure there's maintenance and wages and other fixed expenses, but do you think they still use the same equipment and methods used 40 years ago?



Yes they can, but as I say, I dont know if what they say is right or not...

BUT I did at one time consider trying to work out what money certain Water Companies may b making each year...

On average.. I pay 300 pounds a year...

The Company has so many Million Companies paying the 300 or more pounds per year.

It maybe the most expence is wages..

How many staff do they have can be found and maybe one can take an average wage..

say its 500 pounds per year.. X   10,000 employees as an eg.


They may have say 10 million Customoers..

You can somewhere find out what the companies expenss are ..

so I think it can be estimated..

and maybe they do give their real earnings  somewhere.

I think Wikipedia has some of the info on that companies finances etc... or they Maybe offer some info to their shareholders etc..

What I am not sure about is taking shareholders into account..
when its now privatised.. maybe the person I refeered to has not taken that into account and things may depend how shares perform.

So I think its possible to get some idea..if it could be correct or not..if one is able to do the calculations..

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    But they claim.. in reality that the Water Utilities companies has the money to offer its all for free and we really should not need to be paying what we do..

Anyone can claim any thing.