| Pensions up 10.1% on 19:24 - Nov 17 with 1104 views | bazza |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 18:34 - Nov 17 by HARRY10 |
You would have uproar from those benefitting - employers, whereby the benefits system is an essential tool in subsidising and keeping wages down.
Daily Mail type guff about fraud may play well with the ill informed as does the twaddle that prisons are luxury hotels, but does not fit reality. Both Archer and Aitken were humbled by their experience inside and even as avowed righties spoke about the myths peddled.
Why not cut the subsidies to scroungers like private schools. Ensure they pay the same as any other business. But as long as the old favourites get trotted out, those areas are ignored. |
Archer and Aitken.. they didn’t grow up On grotty council Estates… the premier inn would be like wormwood scrubs to them two ffs 😂!! |  | |  |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 19:26 - Nov 17 with 1105 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 18:55 - Nov 17 by factual_blue |
It's worth pointing out that Civil Service Pensions will also increase by 10.!% |
Teachers' pensions won't.
Each year we have had a pay freeze has been a freeze on the already-reduced pensions we are accruing. The unfunded below-inflation pay rise is a further cut in pay and in future pension. |  |
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| Pensions up 10.1% on 19:26 - Nov 17 with 1104 views | peterleeblue |
To be fair we need the state pension to keep moving upwards. The absolute clattering my personal pension is currently taking I will probably be relying on it.
Hopefully this Autumn statement will at least bring some stability to the markets which I believe is its intent. |  | | |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 19:31 - Nov 17 with 1082 views | XYZ |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 19:26 - Nov 17 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Teachers' pensions won't.
Each year we have had a pay freeze has been a freeze on the already-reduced pensions we are accruing. The unfunded below-inflation pay rise is a further cut in pay and in future pension. |
He was thinking (much, much) closer to home. |  | | |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 19:37 - Nov 17 with 1071 views | HARRY10 |
Fuel duty is going up by around 12p a litre in March, if the oil price has not dropped by then ....yikes | | | |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 19:37 - Nov 17 with 1073 views | Mullet |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 19:26 - Nov 17 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Teachers' pensions won't.
Each year we have had a pay freeze has been a freeze on the already-reduced pensions we are accruing. The unfunded below-inflation pay rise is a further cut in pay and in future pension. |
Those militant unions accepting pay freezes for over decade and now saying enough is enough, are clearly to blame! |  |
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| Pensions up 10.1% on 19:52 - Nov 17 with 1056 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 14:48 - Nov 17 by tractordownsouth |
Your last sentence is correct. However, as a young person I find it really difficult not to fall into the trap. Watching every Tory budget it feels like if you're under 60 or don't have inherited wealth then you're an irrelevance. The only mention of housing in today's statement was about propping up prices, yet I doubt any more will be being built.
All the studies show that today's pensioners are taking out way more than they put in (again that's not their fault) and given the large size of that cohort, it's a huge demographic problem. Younger people like myself who will never own property are being asked to pay more and more each year to fund huge increases for the wealthiest generation in society, while being told we're greedy if we want the same benefits. It's a massive timebomb because most of us will be stuck paying extortionate rents forever and won't be able to do that on the state pension (which is why I predict it won't exist when I reach that age.)
Of course, I'm fully aware there is pensioner poverty and those people should absolutely be getting increases, it's just a bit of a kick in the teeth that the same care isn't being shown towards low to medium earners of working-age too.
A lot of this issue is due to social care. If we could establish a national care service with staff given proper pay, these problems would be solved. Personally, I'd hugely increase inheritance tax to fund it - so much of this country's wealth is tied up in housing and the tax burden is far too heavily weighted towards earned income rather than unearned income and assets. |
I haven't been paying attention, what are they doing now to prop up housing prices? |  |
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| Pensions up 10.1% on 20:32 - Nov 17 with 1014 views | monytowbray |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 13:09 - Nov 17 by tractordownsouth |
The state pension won't exist by the time I reach 70. |
We won’t make 70 full stop the way society and the climate is going. |  |
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| Pensions up 10.1% on 20:53 - Nov 17 with 1001 views | factual_blue |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 19:26 - Nov 17 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Teachers' pensions won't.
Each year we have had a pay freeze has been a freeze on the already-reduced pensions we are accruing. The unfunded below-inflation pay rise is a further cut in pay and in future pension. |
Yeah, but the holidays....
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| Pensions up 10.1% on 22:42 - Nov 17 with 924 views | Ryorry |
Link is paywalled, can't read it. |  |
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| Pensions up 10.1% on 00:10 - Nov 18 with 887 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 22:42 - Nov 17 by Ryorry |
Link is paywalled, can't read it. |
Apologies,Link was sent to me & I could read it. |  |
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| Pensions up 10.1% on 09:31 - Nov 18 with 805 views | usm |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 18:51 - Nov 17 by factual_blue |
As a rule of thumb, you could say every 20,000 benefit recipients would need one hundred staff to deal with every aspect of a means-tested benefit (based on the staffing level of a DSS benefit office back in the day).
So if you're thinking of means testing every benefit paid, that would mean about 228, 000 benefit staff - more than 200% more than at present. Or to put it another way, a 50% increase in current total Civil Service staff numbers. |
I dont know how the numbers pan out, but I guess someone does the maths and they always seem to conclude that it is better just to pay everyone. What a waste of public finances though.
Whilst on the subject, my energy company have refunded the £66 PM energy relief thing straight into my bank account, so that I can spend it on beer and fags. Oh and I'm on a fixed rate so my energy costs have not gone up at all - theyre actually lower, so I'm quids in atm.
Its just bizarre - that money should be going to someone who needs it - and it should be used to reduce energy bills, not for me to spend on whatever I want. |  |
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| Pensions up 10.1% on 09:43 - Nov 18 with 791 views | Ryorry |
| Pensions up 10.1% on 09:31 - Nov 18 by usm |
I dont know how the numbers pan out, but I guess someone does the maths and they always seem to conclude that it is better just to pay everyone. What a waste of public finances though.
Whilst on the subject, my energy company have refunded the £66 PM energy relief thing straight into my bank account, so that I can spend it on beer and fags. Oh and I'm on a fixed rate so my energy costs have not gone up at all - theyre actually lower, so I'm quids in atm.
Its just bizarre - that money should be going to someone who needs it - and it should be used to reduce energy bills, not for me to spend on whatever I want. |
Until the quarterly fill of the wood pellets for my biomass boiler rocketed to £2,060 last month (from an av. of £875 in previous years), I too, as a pensioner, was able to cope with the c.o.l. crisis and going to redistribute some ££ via donations to foodbanks etc. - anyone else with a surplus they don't need could always do the same.
Emailed my (Tory) MP about the huge hoick in pellet price, he seemed to think that the one-off support grant of £100 from govt. would solve my problem  | |
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