About Delaying Retirement Age----Section 1 On November 30th, 2011, broke out a large-scale strike in England, up and down the country many public sector workers were striking! It was because their pension has been cut. The British government would delay the retirement age, therefore in orders to receive the pensions the workers were required to work extra years, plus pay more into their pension plans. Work harder, pay more, but get less, naturally this has made them extremely angry, the angry protesters waved banners and shouting to express their dissatisfaction and to go against this policy. Today it is more and more serious the population aging all over the world, which brings to the problem of social security, thus many counties want to reform the construction of social security to solve it by way of delaying the retirement age, especially in the western developed countries. As a typical social welfare state, UK goes at the forefront in this reform, and any other occident countries have followed suit UK, just as the USA, French, Germany, have taken the reform policies to varying degrees. In my personal point, with the improvement of living standards, people's life expectancy is extended continuously, so it is inevitable to delay the retirement age, but there are pros and cons. On the positive sense, it can really ease the pressure on pension, and thus ease the financial pressure on local governments and alleviate the pressure of aging population, which is benefit for the country. As we all know, with the continuous declining of the birthrate, fewer and fewer of the working population have to support the retired population which is gradually increasing, it leads to a great tax pressure for the working population and a great pension pressure for the financial government. Delaying the retirement age can ease these pressures a certain extent, which can fill the gaps of pension. In negative point,