'Did you get a pay rise or cut in 2009?' poll discussion

badger247

Private multinational, last pay increase April 2008 - that was 1.9%.

2009 - pay freeze.

Last time I has a raise that kept pace with inflation was 2005!

MascaraMinx

Public Sector, pay rise eqauting to approx 2.9%, think, myself very lucky despite having been on a much lower salary than most of my private sector peers for the last 10 years.

However, crafty moves are a-foot to slash the current redundancy scheme down to the bare bones, which means the grim reaper will be calling after the next election....

tomstickland

We all took a 20% pay cut for 10 months.

Gavin83

sparrer wrote: »

I'm in the same position as JBEILBY, seems everything has gone up in the past couple of years except pensions. Not surprised though, it's either the government's way of culling the 'nuisance' generation or to give the media something to report...how many thousands of olds have died each winter because they can't pay both food and fuel bills at the same time

Rubbish. I used to work in a job directly linked to pensions and it rose last year, and is due to rise this year too.

butlinsmum

Self employed and income rise so guess I buck the trend

allean01

I wanted to vote I and J. First my day rate dropped. Then my contract was not renewed.

CutTheJargon

Gavin83 wrote: »

Rubbish. I used to work in a job directly linked to pensions and it rose last year, and is due to rise this year too.

Yes, the pension has risen, but the things that pensioners spend most money on have risen by much more, such as Council Tax, Heating, Utility bills. A lot of the items used in measuring inflation, i.e. electronics, clothes, etc are not purchased as much by pensioners, so they do not benefit from the fall in prices If inflation was measured on the real essentials, we would see that pension rises do not cover it. Yes, the fuel allowance has helped, but pensioners often falling behind and do have to make choices that most of us would not want to make. I also appreciate that they are not the only group to be affected by all the rises. Anybody with low disposable income will be suffering.

Regarding this years increase in pension, the SERPS portion is not going to be increased and for a lot of people this can represent a huge part of their pension, so the rise is not all it's made out to be.

jeanieh_2

My partner is a self employed bricklayer, not entitled to any benefits as he "pays the wrong insurance contributions" according to Lincoln Job Centre. He pays Class 4 which is a legal requirement. He has been out of work for 6 months and is now working as a labourer on minimum wage. As he cannot sign he was not included the employment figures. How many more undisclosed unemployment figures are there?

cw18

jeanieh wrote: »

How many more undisclosed unemployment figures are there?

I was another uncounted one from being laid off late November 08 to starting a new job early Novemver 09 - as is anyone on Widowed Parents Allowance and not in work. You can't receive JSA if you're on that (but at least it's worth more )

CIS

My partner is a self employed bricklayer, not entitled to any benefits as he "pays the wrong insurance contributions" according to Lincoln Job Centre. He pays Class 4 which is a legal requirement

Class 4 NI is not an NI contribution in the same sense as Class 1,2 and 3 contributions - its effectively just another tax on profits and doesn't count towards benefit entitlement.