Bus Pass Rip Off

pollypenny

pattycake wrote: »

I am really disappointed! I thought there was going to be advantages to turning 60 but it seems I need to be 60 and three quarters.

Join Boots Health club for 10% off everything made by Boots ( Number 7, Expert, Botanics, supplements).

B&Q 10% Wednesdays, concessions at cinemas and theatres.

It's great, Patty.

Sowilo_2

Got my bus pass at 60. Male, not retired, Scarborough. North Yorkshire. Didn't even take ID in, they just checked me on the Electorel Register and posted in to me a few days later.

tanith

These changes have been coming for years I don't understand how people can not know and have dealt with the feelings that is somehow 'unfair', its been 'unfair' that women have been collecting their pensions and all other benefits 5yrs before men for many years and now its being put right.. in a measured and sensible way. At least its being phased in slowly and they didn't suddenly put the age woman become entitled up to 65...
Some of us were lucky and crept under the change date and some have to wait a little longer but as someone else said there had to be a cutoff date.... I can understand its annoying but its been publicised for years..

seven-day-weekend

Good post tanith, I absolutely agree. Although I still know some people who didn't know about the rise in womens' Pension age until recently. Have they been living on the moon or something? It's been planned for at least a decade!

As for those of us who 'got in' before the change (I'm one, being 60 in January this year), well we have had to pay our NI for 39/44 years to get our full State Pension; people now only have to pay for 30, so far more people (especially women) will qualify for it. Also a man who does not have enough NI can claim from his wife's if she has, that was not the case before the changes. Also people are living much longer after retirement, it is right that the age should be equalised/raised.

The new system is much fairer than the old one.

And bear in mind that many people won't actually have to actually work till that age, they will be able to retire earlier on a works or private pension or other income if they wish. It just means they won't be able to draw their State Pension until 65 (or later at 68).

dzug1

That's the trouble with change. The system is unfair but you can't change it because that would be unfair to those who have 'suffered' under the old one.

And I'm surprised no one has quoted the rip off rule yet.....

margaretclare

dzug1 wrote: »

That's the trouble with change. The system is unfair but you can't change it because that would be unfair to those who have 'suffered' under the old one.

And I'm surprised no one has quoted the rip off rule yet.....

What's the rip off rule?

zygurat789

margaretclare wrote: »

What's the rip off rule?

Oh dear. Somebody had to ask.

t0rt0ise

Last I heard the date for free prescriptions will move eventually but not this year. So you should get them this year as soon as you are 60. Next year it may be different but it seems that they didn't get their act together for this year.

lilac_lady

It seems unfair that Wales and Scotland have cheaper prescription charges than England. (I live in Scotland).

zygurat789

lilac_lady wrote: »

It seems unfair that Wales and Scotland have cheaper prescription charges than England. (I live in Scotland).

Especially as it is the English who are paying for it