Quotes About Pension

If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.

a pension is a delayed payment for work already done. This is the most fundamental truth about pensions, and it is almost never said.

a pension comes with it, that pension is part of your pay, part of your conditions of employment.

pension is anything but a gift to an employee. It is earned. And it is set up to profit the employer as well as the employee.

Even the nuns went racist after the convent was reappraised and it seemed their pension fund was in jeopardy.

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers' pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the workers?

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.

Your average person in Illinois doesn't really even know what workers' comp is. The average person doesn't know really what's going on in the pension system. They know their taxes are too high; they know we've got a deficit. But getting that message out and helping the people of Illinois really understand what's going on, that's hard.

Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.

Retired public service workers make up the backbone of the middle class in so many of our communities.

With more than half of the American workforce without private pension coverage, Social Security provides economic certainty within a system that is fair, equitable, and easy to understand. You work hard, pay into the system, and the federal government makes a promise to pay back your earned benefits when you retire. It's that simple.

Because of lower life expectancy in Scotland - something that we are working hard to improve - the average woman will get £11,000 less in pension payments than counterparts in the rest of the U.K., even though she will pay exactly the same in contributions.

Since 2012, automatic enrolment has brought millions of people into a workplace pension for the first time, thanks to the support of businesses and employees across the UK.

If Obama raises my company's taxes by 20 percent, how am I going to be able to survive as a company? Well, if I've got 30 employees, that means I'm going to have to lay off 10 employees so I can be able to keep up with the health and benefits and pension plans for my other 20 employees.

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans they have to be self-reliant.

Hey, Trash, what did old lady Semple say when you torched her pension check?

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.

Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

You can't be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.

After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.