Commons Work & Pensions Committee launch inquiry into "intergenerational fairness"

sangie595

In the spirit of intergenerational fairness, we should restart sending children up chimneys, and tax everyone extra if they have an indoor toilet. Get rid of working tax credits, and child tax credits (neither of which was available to "baby boomers"). Oh, and get rid of the national minimum wage/ living wage - the parents of more than a few of us would have killed for a minimum wage!

Doesn't anyone realise that this government's definition of fairness is "cuts for the poorest"? And "devil take the hindmost"? They won't be looking at the "long term outcomes" for the rich pensioners. By successfully turning us all on each other, claiming that somehow it's some slight advantages that are the cause of all ills, once they have impoverished pensioners even further, they'll move on to creating "fairness" for some other poor group of people. They aren't interested in making anything better for anyone.

UKParliament

On Wednesday 16 March 2016 from 9.30am, the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee will hear evidence as part of their inquiry into intergenerational fairness.

The Committee will hear from:

• Sally West, Income and Poverty Strategy Adviser, Age UK
• Dan Wilson Craw, Policy and Communication Manager, Generation Rent
• Ashley Seager, Co-founder and advisory board member, Intergenerational Foundation
• Neil Duncan-Jordan, National Officer, National Pensioners' Convention
• Ben Franklin, Head of Economics of an Ageing Society, International Longevity Centre UK
• Rachael Saunders, Age at Work Director, Business in the Community

Watch the session on Parliament TV.

UKParliament

On Monday 25 April 2016 from 3.45pm, the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee will hear evidence as part of their inquiry into intergenerational fairness.

The Committee will hear from:
Philip Booth, Editorial and Programme Director, Institute of Economic Affairs
Shiv Malik, Investigations Correspondent, The Guardian
Paul Johnson, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
James Sefton, Professor of Economics, Imperial College London

Watch the session on Parliament TV.

Weary_soul

intergenerational fairness.

Dear god, what a joke.....

UKParliament

On Wednesday 27 April 2016 from 9.30am, the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee will hear evidence as part of their inquiry into intergenerational fairness.

The Committee will hear from:
Baroness Altmann, Minister for Pensions, Department for Work and Pensions
Mary Pattison, Ageing Society and State Pensions Director, Department for Work and Pensions
Tom Younger, Deputy Director, Pensions Strategy, and Analysis, Department for Work and Pensions

Watch the session on Parliament TV.

Lanzarote1938

nannytone wrote: »

some pensioners struggle, but their example doesn't reflect the situation as a whole. stats show that pensioners as a group, have the highest disposable income

I have a sight condition very similar to yours Nannytone and would love to have the sort of post housing costs disposable income and additional support that you receive.

However as a pensioner I have to be satisfied with a State Pension of £75 a week, less tax. No mobility allowance for me, apparently pensioners do not need to leave their house. No paid for maid/chauffeur for me. I worked for far more years than you to receive probably less than a tenth of your entitlement so I think you need to stop with the unfairness claims.

nannytone_2

well if your 'less than a 10th' is £75, then i really think you vastly over estimate the benefits system!
you have NO idea of the 'disposable' income i have after the costs directly involved with my disability are paid.

i don't have a 'maid' or a 'chauffeur'
i have a PA that i have to give up 70% of my DLA to employ.she is necessary to me as i live alone, and if you lived alone, you too would receive additional support in order to remain independent.
whilst i agree that it is wrong that there is no mobility component to AA, i feel it is rather unfair for you to be envious of the fact i do.
and to also point out that you 'worked longer' ( i worked for 31 years, 15 years after i was registered blind. i gave up work only because i had no choice) for less benefit is also a rather odd comment, because you are actually showing a kind of jealousy for the fact that i went blind before retirement age.

lucky, lucky me

nannytone_2

you don't want to be personal, but decided you would anyway?

you used the terms 'maid' and chauffeur' to intimate that they were some kind of luxury, which is paid for by state benefits.

my PA, helps ME do the things i need to. she doesn't do them for me. so most definitely not a maid.

i was born with very limited peripheral vision and by the time i was a teen, i had no peripheral sight at all. from that time my central vision started going until i had nothing left at all.

so in all honesty, you have no idea what it is like and the problems blindness causes, because from my point of view ( as someone who managed quite well for many years with very limited sight) you have very usable vision.

you need to re read my posts.
i NEVER say that pensioner benefits are too high, instead i react to theres appeals for 'fairness' ( usually when talking about the need for working age peoples benefits to be cut)
all i say is, if you want fairness, then it has to be fair for all.

p00hsticks

Lanzarote1938 wrote: »

However as a pensioner I have to be satisfied with a State Pension of £75 a week, less tax.

No tax to pay if your only income is £75 a week.....

Lanzarote1938

p00hsticks wrote: »

No tax to pay if your only income is £75 a week.....

SRP is £75 a week. Think pensioners are allowed to have other sources of income that they have arranged and paid for over the decades they worked. Just a pity that many don't bother to secure their future while they have the chance.