In our country, our official retirement age is between 50 to 60 years old. Men's retirement is becially 60, women is 50. However, the retirement age of UK is 65 years old. Roy Gill said that 'Under the proposal, employers would not be allowed to dismiss staff because they had reached the age of 65'. In our country sometimes depends them selfs, they can also stay long time as they wish. There is also have an old age pension for people too old to work in our country, such as national insurance contributions, retirement funding for government and so on. It is similar with UK, it has national insurance contributions, the government pension. the pension is not very high in UK, it same as China. Some people can apply for income support who are not have a work for long time, they can receive it. UK's welfare has 7 different types, there are Children and pregnant women welfare, disability or illness benefits, retirement benefits, widow welfare, unemployment benefits, low-income people welfare and social fund.
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