Public Sector Pension Strikes – A JOKE !

J_i_m

I think we've got our wires crossed on that one. My salary currently is £16395. I just had a quick play with the NHS pension calculator, and after 30 years service it says I'd get £6k annually and a lump sum of £18.4k.

please don't start screaming at me by the way, I've only posted that to clarify something.

Charliecherry

Anyone know the answer to this; How many public sector days strikes would it take to clear the deficit.....assuming they forgo wages when on strike.

Old_Slaphead

michelle1506 wrote: »

27k Like I said hardly 'gold plated'!

If you're on £27k and your pension dept has quoted £6k for 30 years FT service then I'd contact them quickly because they've made a serious mistake.

On 1/60ths scheme you will get £13,500pa after 30 years and 1/80th you will get £10,125pa + tax free sum of £30,375.

BTW 'gold plated' refers to the scheme terms & benefits not the amounts actually paid out.

Old_Slaphead

Charliecherry wrote: »

Anyone know the answer to this; How many public sector days strikes would it take to clear the deficit.....assuming they forgo wages when on strike.

Assuming no increase in benefits - approx 12 years

worldwheeler

tillycat123 wrote: »

I did have a giggle this morning, was dropping my OH off at the trains station, there was some chap with a sandwich board outside stopping people going in to ask if he could speak the them about the cuts. My OH does not mince his words and told in in no polite terms where he could shove his chat. He got a round of applause from the que of people at the station for doing it.

Divide, confuse and conquer. The gubberment will divide the public into inward fighting groups so the spotlight never falls on them and their friends. The pension issue is akin to pre-ordering a Christmas turkey of 6kg and paying £80 for it. Then at the beginning of December the butcher tells you your turkeys is only going to be 2-3kg and he wants another £60 for it. Get used to it,stuck it up. Or stand up to the playground bully!
Gubberments are a conduit to funnel huge amounts of taxpayers money to their friends sitting on the leather sofas in the gentleman's club. PFI(public fleeced by investors) or "how to get services for the most extremely expensive way possible"
Ever notice how the script of gubberment and opposition never changes - all that changes is the actors(MPs) positions, and the colour of the folder holding their lines, who are reading these lines from the given scripts. left... right... labour... tory... red.... blue - it makes no difference. Every 4 or 5 years we get a choice of what colour theme the part has, but the party carries on with exactly the same dance regardless. And the public carry on in their party playing musical chairs, with the number of chairs given to them by gubberment and finance, and fighting each other so they are not the one left without a seat, DISTRACTION.

tillycat123 wrote: »

Stop moaning, Be thankful you have a job and even more thankful you have something when you retire that's not going down the drain when the stock-market keeps crashing.

Race to the bottom. Be thankful your owners lets you work, for there are others who will do it for less. Accept that your owners want more and more and unless you give them that they will exploit Asia or Africa or South America or any other area they drive into poverty and then poverty will be visited on you. The world is owned and run for the benefit of a very, very few to the detriment of the vast,vast many.

Think more, it's not illegal...yet!

DCodd

Old_Slaphead wrote: »

Assuming no increase in benefits - approx 12 years

Really?... so where is the figure of a £500m loss to the economy coming from?

DCodd

Juat a thought.

The figures on life expectancy rates suggest a steady increase in mortality rates the longer you live (obviously). So with death in service benefits being readily available in both the private and public sectors, are we storing up a large financial liability by inceasing the retirement age to 68 and an ever growing population?

Credit-Crunched

"The pension issue is akin to pre-ordering a Christmas turkey of 6kg and paying £80 for it. Then at the beginning of December the butcher tells you your turkeys is only going to be 2-3kg and he wants another £60 for it. Get used to it,stuck it up. Or stand up to the playground bully!"

To follow on from your analogy, if it then turns out that you can not afford the £80 yourself, you ask all of your neighbours to foot the bill for you.

Then on Christmas day you are tucking into your generous and defined size turkey, whilst the rest of your street fights for scraps to survive.

DCodd

zygurat789 wrote: »

Social security, we've effectively given away our aircraft carriers etc to the vast army of people living off benefits and:-
playing golf all day
dancing the night away
etc etc etc

Sorry but you will have to explain. Why is a one day public sector strike going to increase our social security liability by £500m?

cvd

Gubberments are a conduit to funnel huge amounts of taxpayers money to their friends sitting on the leather sofas in the gentleman's club.

Ever notice how the script of gubberment and opposition never changes - all that changes is the actors(MPs) positions, and the colour of the folder holding their lines, who are reading these lines from the given scripts

Ahh. Some wisdom at last.

At the present time, the gap between those at the very top and the rest is widening at a faster rate than for many years. Yet it is not difficult to find people who chant the mantra "we are all in it together".