{"id":3247,"date":"2016-02-01T02:27:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T19:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fair-pensions-and-other-interests-of-older-people-letters\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T02:45:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T19:45:58","slug":"fair-pensions-and-other-interests-of-older-people-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fair-pensions-and-other-interests-of-older-people-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair pensions and other interests of older people | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nGaby Hinsliff (As we give up on saving, we give up on our future, 22 January) wisely steered clear of the crock of worms that is the workplace pension.Obliged by the government to provide a pension scheme into which all our employees will automatically be kettled, we\u2019ve made sure that our small publishing company will be ready on time. But it is a small business \u2013 we have only one employee who qualifies. He plans to opt out of the pension scheme, as is his right, and regards the decision as simple: he prefers to take what remains of his pay now after PAYE and national insurance, rather than lose a further part of it for whatever \u00a335 a week will be worth in 20 years\u2019 time. We have, then, wasted time and money setting up a scheme that no one will use. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2016\/jan\/31\/fair-pensions-and-other-interests-of-older-people\" target=\"_blank\">Fair pensions and other interests of older people | Letters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Gaby Hinsliff (As we give up on saving, we give up on our future, 22&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-Qn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26570,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/frank-field-condemns-plan-to-dump-bernard-matthews-pension-scheme\/","url_meta":{"origin":3247,"position":0},"title":"Frank Field condemns plan to &#039;dump&#039; 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