IT has recently been in the news that the Government is proposing National Health Service workers serve a further five years beyond the age of 60 before they are eligible to collect their pension.

This may suit a minority but is an outrage to others.

I am not a National Health Service employee but feel that it is time that someone spoke up on their behalf.

This is not the only company where these type of changes are being mooted.

There cannot be any excuse to force anyone into a change of contract to collect pensions later.

The main reason is that companies took pension breaks during the stock market boom years and now employees have to have the consequences of the inevitable crash passed on to them.

Why, in the age of such major advances in technology, is it being proposed by Government that we should "work till we drop"?

Are we not now in the 21st century? I sometimes wonder, as it would appear we are turning time back to the Victorian era.

G A woodward

Nelson Street