worried over deprivation

dealer_wins

I think I need to stop working, and start "working the benefit system".

Some of the threads on here make me think sod it, if you cant beat em, join em.

I wont because I was brought up better than this, but it does grate!!!

xylophone

Am expecting a post about driving a Freelander.

Son of Andy?:rotfl:

marybelle01

I know that these threads aren't supposed to be about benefit policy, but sometimes I just can't believe what I read. Someone is set to inherit approaching a quarter of a million £'s and doesn't "need it" because they receive benefits? It's an insult to people on this board who really do need benefits and can't get them because they aren't "sick enough" or whatever. There's an awful lot of £120's in £210,000 - you are arguing that you should give away MY money to your sister so that she can have a house she can't afford. This is the sort of question that makes people wonder why they should have to pay taxes to people on benefits who abuse the system by claiming money when they have money.

I have, probably like you and your sister, worked very hard all my life - but why do you think I should pay for you to live when you can afford to do without it, or subsidise your sisters housing because she can't afford a three bedroom house for herself?

tonyciclo

dealer_wins wrote: »

I think I need to stop working, and start "working the benefit system".

Some of the threads on here make me think sod it, if you cant beat em, join em.

I wont because I was brought up better than this, but it does grate!!!

Maybe instead of assuming something you could try thinking a bit more. We are both past 65 and I have worked a total of 46 years with the same employer, have never taken a day off sick, never claimed a benefit and have never been unemployed. Now when you get to my age and have an employment record like mine and of paying tax and national insurance as I have you might have a right to comment. Until that time comes, carry on working and making sure that there is enough in the pot to pay our pensions and benefits.

tonyciclo

Thank you to all of those that have tried to help and those that have given me the answers I need. There is no requirement to advise them of the coming inheritance when it is renewed next year, only if you are about to receive a pension in the next 12 months. I will be arranging for the estate to hold off distributing it until after July next year. For those that weren't interested in helping, why bother wasting your time?
I don't need any further answers thank you.

CFC

tonyciclo wrote: »

Maybe instead of assuming something you could try thinking a bit more. We are both past 65 and I have worked a total of 46 years with the same employer, have never taken a day off sick, never claimed a benefit and have never been unemployed. Now when you get to my age and have an employment record like mine and of paying tax and national insurance as I have you might have a right to comment. Until that time comes, carry on working and making sure that there is enough in the pot to pay our pensions and benefits.

Don't feed the troll.

SkyeKnight

tonyciclo wrote: »

Maybe instead of assuming something you could try thinking a bit more. We are both past 65 and I have worked a total of 46 years with the same employer, have never taken a day off sick, never claimed a benefit and have never been unemployed. Now when you get to my age and have an employment record like mine and of paying tax and national insurance as I have you might have a right to comment. Until that time comes, carry on working and making sure that there is enough in the pot to pay our pensions and benefits.

If you have worked and paid NI for 46 years you should have a pretty big State Second Pension. You do know that that isn't means tested? My father earned a less than average salary and didn't get a full NI record and still got a SSP larger than Pension Credit.

So, either you have a large State Second Pension and don't qualify for Pension Credit, or you have earned an absolute pittance for 46 years and cannot claim to have paid enough in the system to anywhere near cover your costs or lecture the rest of us!

FBaby

Your attitude is shocking

Now when you get to my age and have an employment record like mine and of paying tax and national insurance as I have you might have a right to comment

One thing you didn't do is put money aside in a private pension. WE, who are paying for your pension' have to do so if we want to have anything for ourselves when we retire. We are therefore probably paying twice if no more towards OUR pension so we can pay yours.

It is only because you didn't do that that there is a question whether you can do whatever you want with your estate. It was your choice not to put money aside so you didn't rely on pension credits. You now want your cake and eat it. If at least you showed gratefulness for a system that benefits you highly, but oh no, you think it is your right and entitlement and that you deserve it.

margaretclare

OMG. I sometimes wonder which planet I'm living on or which century I've stumbled into by chance.

I completely agree with Marybelle above. She has said it all.

So someone has worked past age 65, paid NI and taxes, never claimed anything (sound familiar - heard it all before) and now can't afford to live without pension credit in spite of a whopping great inheritance coming his way under Dad's will? I can't believe some people.

The OP is not the only one with that kind of a track record, worked all those years, never claimed anything etc etc (violins playing in background). Be it known to you, DH and I have done the same since leaving school in 1951 aged 16, both of us. We've been in responsible positions and we now have enough to be comfortable - not rich but not poor - from the pensions we earned in our working lives. We both worked up to age 67. None of our parents had anything money-wise to leave us, they left us a set of values and standards to live by and that's what we do.

BTW we're still paying tax and so we're still contributing indirectly to the OP's pension credit, which he will not need once Dad's will has gone through probate. I can understand sister wanting to buy a house of her own - shouldn't the inheritance be shared between them leaving aside the question of means-tested benefits, need for etc?

sammyjammy

This just makes me so sad, what has this country come to that everyone thinks they are entitled to get their share of the benefits pot and to hell with everyone else.