Additional State Pension

mpbdsnu

So it's just my !!!!ing misses that suffers then? These Tories are !!!!s!

Mojisola

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

The £148 only affects people who reach retirement age after April 6th 2016. Anyone already receiving their pension will not be affected.

mpbdsnu wrote: »

So it's just my !!!!ing misses that suffers then? These Tories are !!!!s!

No, everyone who is receiving their pension before April 6th, 2016 keeps the pension they are getting - nothing changes.

No-one has targeted your wife out of all the millions of people in the country.

seven-day-weekend

I don't understand what you are saying. Her pension will not change if she reached State retirement age before 2016. Same as millions of others! What do you mean, it is just her that suffers?

mpbdsnu

She will get less than the£ 148 even though she made contributions for 45 years!

Mojisola

mpbdsnu wrote: »

She will get less than the£ 148 even though she made contributions for 45 years!

And that's the situation that many of us are in.

seven-day-weekend

Like millions of us! She is not being treated any different.

Many people have contributed for fifty years who are not getting the £148.

poppasmurf_bewdley

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I don't understand what you are saying. Her pension will not change if she reached State retirement age before 2016. Same as millions of others! What do you mean, it is just her that suffers?

I believe the OP thinks that his wife should get an increased pension in line with the new 2016 rules, as well as having been claiming the pension for goodness knows how long already.

The old saying about having your cake and eating it springs to mind!

He needs to understand that she won't suffer at all. She'll get exactly what she gets now, no more, no less. If she's getting less than £148.35 now, maybe she should be looking at getting Pension Credit. But there again, those retiring after April 2016 won't be able to claim that, so maybe she'll feel it wrong to do so.

Mojisola

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Like millions of us! She is not being treated any different.

Many people have contributed for fifty years who are not getting the £148.

And many of the women who will get the £148 pension aren't happy at having to wait until they are 65 before they can claim it.

Cut-off points are drawn somewhere but it's not personal!

p00hsticks

Mojisola wrote: »

And many of the women who will get the £148 pension aren't happy at having to wait until they are 65 before they can claim it.

Cut-off points are drawn somewhere but it's not personal!

And by no means everyone retiring after 2016 will be getting as much as £148 - anyone who's been contracted out will get money deducted from that

p00hsticks

mpbdsnu wrote: »

So it's just my !!!!ing misses that suffers then? These Tories are !!!!s!

Many would say that 'these Tories' are bending over backwards to protect pensioners from the cutbacks that they are applying to the working age population (because they don't want to lose their votes)....