Child Benefit Farce 2

Eellogofusciouhipoppokunu

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Do they actually contribute at all (to their pension)?

Probably not, but they could start a personal pension and salt some money into that.

CLAPTON

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Do they actually contribute at all (to their pension)?

yes MPs do contribute to their pensions

BobQ

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Do they actually contribute at all (to their pension)?

Oh dear I find myself defending those poor MPs. Yes they do pay into their pensions. How dare you think otherwise.

They have the option of paying different rates in return for accruing benefits at different rates. About 95% of these generous souls contribue about 12% of salary, some even brag about how large their contributions are to convince the plebs that they do pay for them. But for this contribution they get a FS pension with a 1/40th accrual rate.

The last throes of the argument at present is their form of the living wage as they want various expenses consolidated into their salary, to give a living wage of £95K. (For those approaching retirement this will add a trifling sum to their FS calculation.)

kabayiri

BobQ wrote: »

Oh dear I find myself defending those poor MPs. Yes they do pay into their pensions. How dare you think otherwise.

They have the option of paying different rates in return for accruing benefits at different rates. About 95% of these generous souls contribue about 12% of salary, some even brag about how large their contributions are to convince the plebs that they do pay for them. But for this contribution they get a FS pension with a 1/40th accrual rate.

The last throes of the argument at present is their form of the living wage as they want various expenses consolidated into their salary, to give a living wage of £95K. (For those approaching retirement this will add a trifling sum to their FS calculation.)

If they were forced to buy into a money purchase scheme, rather than FS, then we would have the nice situation of MPs concerned for the health of our pension industry. Perhaps then, ministers like a certain Mr Brown wouldn't have tried to decimate it so much.

Rochdale_Pioneers

The_White_Horse wrote: »

about what?

i believe it should be scrapped altogether - not scrapped for people on 60k but kept for people on 99k. i don't think that makes me a hypocrite. I think sensible is the word you're looking for.

No, what makes you a hypocrite is that as the person who foams at the mouth about scum receiving handouts from the government you got fabulously upset about losing your handouts from the government. And no matter how unfair you losing yours so that your betters on £90k can keep theirs is, its nothing compared to how unfair it is that people who already have !!!! all are having it taken away because of a scumbag government cheered on by selfish hypocrites like your good self.

PaulF81

Are we really arguing the toss over 20 quid a week? Is I said before, if they can justify cuts further down the food chain and gt fat Shaz back into work and off the fags (to prevent Harvey and tyrone from starving a little) then it gets my vote.

It's about narking off the middle classes enough that they don't care about whining doleites when the REAL benefits cuts come in thick and fast. It's actually quite clever.