In the country I live in, it is a very difficult choice to retire early. I know a lot of old relatives and acquaintances who refused to retire early for fear of not having enough financial support to cater to their needs. Such a problem is even emphasized more now as food prices and utilities here skyrocketing. Hence, despite wanting to have the luxury of not working anymore and just spending time with family and to one's self or maybe even starting their own business that they've always dreamed of doing, a lot of working individuals here have no choice but to keep working and extend their contract. For them, it is hard to rely on their savings and whatever money they will get after retiring as it will not be a continuous source of income that will pay their bills until the end of their lifetime.
My grandmother retire in her job after she paid for the government agency that can give her monthly pension every month after 20years. People here in us needed to work with that span of time because as what you have said they are afraid that the government will not support them after if they did not have a proper amount of contribution. We are not relying to the government but the thing is our govt will automatically deduct those money if we dont want to.
Totally be depending on what those countries laws or whatever things that been implemented in regarding about pension. Same here in my country on which you would really be needing to reach up that particular years in
service before you would really be considered to be eligible or would really be granted with that pension on which means that you wont really be having no choice but to deal off with that requirement even if it would be against with your interest.Usually it would really be that 20 Years or on the time that you would really be reaching out 60+ of age on which you could really be able to have your requirement but i would say
that getting yourself @60 before you could be able to separate is really just that too much because you cant really be able to enjoy that retirement money because you are getting even more older
but somewhat having those benefits would really be a great help.
We know that even if we do have our kids, we cant really be assure that one day they would really be able to help us out on the time that we are old and weak.
So its better to mind yourself on having those supports when the time comes.