他们是长期陷入贫困,而又缺乏福利依赖的一群人。由于收入赶不上通货膨胀的变化,他们的退休工资实际变得越来越少。他们也无从弥补家庭收支不平衡所带来的赤字。贫穷使他们丧失了摆脱贫穷的能力,腐蚀着他们的希望和梦想。在湖南衡阳市区,上世纪六七十年代参加工作,已退休10年以上的环卫工人,大约有六七百人。他们的退休工资,至今还是2000年的标准,每月800元左右;加上原单位发放的补贴,每人每月的养老金在1000元上下。已至暮年的他们,日常生活被粘结在低劣艰辛的层次上,与贫困进行着没完没了 They are a group of people who have long been in poverty and lack welfare dependencies. As incomes fall short of the inflationary changes, their retirement payroll actually becomes less and less. Nor can they make up for the deficit caused by the imbalance of household incomes. Poverty has deprived them of their ability to escape poverty and erode their hopes and dreams. In the urban area of ​​Hengyang in Hunan Province, sanitation workers who took part in the work in the sixties and seventies of the last century and have retired for more than 10 years, have about 700 or 700 people. Their retirement salaries, still the standard of 2000, are about 800 yuan per month. With the subsidy issued by the original unit, the monthly pension per person is about 1,000 yuan. They are old age, daily life is stuck in the poor level of hardship, and poverty is endless