£209.61 is the weekly amount. Really? There are so many unchallenged assumptions in this figure - i.e., there is no rent or mortgage to be paid, no holidays to be taken, no clothes to be bought, and certainly no car to run and no occasional theatre ticket to be bought. Where I live (in a London suburb) the cost of a visit to a hairdresser for a half-head of highlights is £120, a call-out fee for a plumber to diagnose a problem (not to remedy it) is £85, and the weekly shop for two people taking into account the renewal of things like detergents, toothpaste, is £110.00. What energy is going to cost is yet another shot in the dark. I really am appalled at these silly figures which implicitly say that in retirement people are expected to change their lifestyle and become lesser beings. Yes, there may well be things on offer such as free lane swimming, reduced tennis club fees, free transport, but not everyone wants to be restricted to doing their swimming or playing their tennis between 7 and 8 in the morning. If ever there was a message that said 'pack up and die' when you stop working, this £10.900 is it.