The Welfare State We're In, The website of the book by James Bartholomew
April 24, 2005
Sunday
The rising public-sector-worker national debt
According to Stephen Yeo, an actuary at Watson Wyatt, the bill taxpayers will have to pay for the final salary pensions of the five million public sector workers has risen dramatically in the last two years from £425 billion to £700 billion. That is nearly twice the size of the national debt, yet you will not find it in the Treasury's accounts.

From an article by George Trefgarne in the Daily Telegraph.

Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Pensions

Comments (0) TrackBack (23)



Warning: file(http://63.247.138.2/~bartholo/randomquotes.dump) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No route to host in /home/bartholo/public_html/archives/2005/04/the_rising_publ.php on line 265

Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Bad arguments. in /home/bartholo/public_html/archives/2005/04/the_rising_publ.php on line 265