whooppee!! extravagant pension increase

zygurat789

chesky369 wrote: »

Yes, you are correct Primrose - it also is not paid on any part of the pension that is now being paid after being deferred. Bit fed up about that.

Some people are unbelieveable. See my post above not only should you be grateful you should be b****y grateful. Really your basic and all additional elements, including the deferred element, should have gone down. Instead the basic went up 2.5%. You sghould be thanking Alistair not feeling fed up. Stop moaning.

lilac_lady

zygurat789 wrote: »

Some people are unbelieveable. See my post above not only should you be grateful you should be b****y grateful. Really your basic and all additional elements, including the deferred element, should have gone down. Instead the basic went up 2.5%. You sghould be thanking Alistair not feeling fed up. Stop moaning.

It's called a discussion.

zygurat789

I was discussing it.
the basic pensioner iwill have an increase of 3.89% over what it should have been, combined with the 1.4% fall in the RPI makes 5.29%. I'll have a small wager this is more than the bank pays currently. If there is £20 of addirtional pension then this falls to 4.8% more of a pay rise than most I suspect.
Pensioners have done really well out of this and all i see is "I'm a bit fed up"
Quite frankly it hacks me off.

Errata

zygurat789 wrote: »

I was discussing it.
the basic pensioner iwill have an increase of 3.89% over what it should have been, combined with the 1.4% fall in the RPI makes 5.29%. I'll have a small wager this is more than the bank pays currently. If there is £20 of addirtional pension then this falls to 4.8% more of a pay rise than most I suspect.
Pensioners have done really well out of this and all i see is "I'm a bit fed up"
Quite frankly it hacks me off.

If all you see is pensioners saying 'I'm a bit fed up' perhaps you need to widen your reading ?

chesky369

Obviously Zygurat has never met me when I'm in a REALLY bad mood!

zygurat789

chesky369 wrote: »

Obviously Zygurat has never met me when I'm in a REALLY bad mood!

How about being in a good mood, for a change. This was, and is, very good news after all the bad news there has been to moan about. Try being happy about something, it makes all the difference, and, if you must complain, and we all do, complain about something bad not good.

chesky369

And you're the one talking about moaning on?

chesky369

I don’t usually talk about myself on these boards – however. For the record, I count my blessings, as I am a very fortunate pensioner. I am in the position of still being able to save all of my state pension – some of which I deferred as I worked way past my retirement date. So I am not personally affected one way or another by the derisory amount of pension increase which this government has seen fit to bestow upon its citizens.

However
I refuse to be grateful for such meagre mercies
Because

When I see my local MP and her equally despisable husband – the MP of the adjoining district – being subsidised in their purchase of an apartment in Covent Garden, despite the fact that their constituency (and their family home) is less than 9 miles from Westminster – a journey their constituents do daily, taking less than an hour.
I refuse to be grateful for such meagre mercies

When I see my daughter’s millionaire boss paying a lower rate of income tax than she does – he’s not doing anything wrong, it’s quite within the law.
I refuse to be grateful for such meagre mercies

When I see on a daily basis, elderly and frail pensioners who need my constant reassurance before they feel they have the right to even apply for additional financial assistance and are living in straightened circumstances at a time when such worries should not hang over them.
I refuse to be grateful for such meagre mercies

zygurat789

zygurat789 wrote: »

How about being in a good mood, for a change. This was, and is, very good news after all the bad news there has been to moan about. Try being happy about something, it makes all the difference, and, if you must complain, and we all do, complain about something bad not good.

I agree with you entirely on the points you raised and they are worth complaining about. You realise that we live in an oligarchy of 600 odd who are only feathering their own nests. Until there is a political party which will deliver fairness in the economy
ie No indexed linked pensions in the public sector when the private sector is losing final salary schemes.
People pay tax according to their income not according to how they can manipulate its source.
Do not vote. I have deliberately spoiled my ballot for some time, even getting a postal vote to do this. I will not be party to their stupidity.

There is a recession and most people are suffering, there is no good reason why pensioners should get away scott free, however, in this case they have done better than that.

chesky369

......Do not vote......

Never - people have died in this country and women suffered enormous hardship and indignity to ensure we have the vote. In dictatorships around the world, people are still denied this basic right.