Boris Johnson urged to let Britons 'retire early' to reduce COVID unemployment
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister, is in charge of implementing varying policies, and has spearheaded Government support throughout the pandemic. However, the Prime Minister is being urged to take further action to support both older and younger people in a petition on the official Parliament website. The petition is entitled: “Temporarily allow early retirement to reduce unemployment cause by COVID.”
As such, it suggests, a temporary programme of early retirement could help with this kind of burden.
It continued: “The proposal may be cost neutral or relatively cheap because of savings in various benefits received by unemployed people with families and will have huge social benefits.
“The retired may contribute to the economy in the form of part-time work, income tax, or the purchase of services such as home improvements using capital released form pension funds.”
At present, the petition has garnered 133 signatures, so it has a way to go until reaching the 10,000 trigger point.
