Boomers Pension Gravy Train Finally To Be Derailed

Cakeguts

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Thanks I don't have an iPhone or Sky.

Btw people don't usually buy their own Christmas presents.

Well then expect to send ones you have made to your friends or do what some of my boomer friends do get them from charity shops and do some recycling.

Do we assume that you have most of the rest on the list then?

ruggedtoast

Cakeguts wrote: »

Well then expect to send ones you have made to your friends or do what some of my boomer friends do get them from charity shops and do some recycling.

Do we assume that you have most of the rest on the list then?

Christmas must be a hoot round yours.

MobileSaver

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Well I thought instead of dealing with specious fake statistics from dodgy non referenced websites that are selling travel adventures, I might actually use facts.

Firstly the actual number of students who take a gap year is around 27,000 per year, not some 2.5 million, which is nonsensical if you think about it for 3 seconds.

Er, who said anything about 2.5 million per year?!?!

I don't know where you got your 27,000 figure from; the very factual site you yourself linked to states:

Between 200,000 and 250,000 young people aged 16-25 are estimated to take a gap year of some kind each year

So I am sure even you can work out that that could easily equate to 2.5 million of "your generation" (i.e. "young people.")

Cakeguts

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Christmas must be a hoot round yours.

It is what older people do who are on a pension and don't have much money. Do I take it that you have enough spare cash to buy presents that are not made by you or come from charity shops?

pop_gun

The triple lock on pensions is unsustainable as is the pension system itself. The government is already taking steps to raise the pension age to 81 by the year 2028. It's not what many would like, but it's what we'll have to live with.

ukcarper

pop_gun wrote: »

The triple lock on pensions is unsustainable as is the pension system itself. The government is already taking steps to raise the pension age to 81 by the year 2028. It's not what many would like, but it's what we'll have to live with.

I agree the triple lock should stop it has served it purpose.

Where did you get the government are planning to raise pension age to 81.

CLAPTON

pop_gun wrote: »

The triple lock on pensions is unsustainable as is the pension system itself. The government is already taking steps to raise the pension age to 81 by the year 2028. It's not what many would like, but it's what we'll have to live with.

why is it unsustainable?

ruggedtoast

Cakeguts wrote: »

It is what older people do who are on a pension and don't have much money. Do I take it that you have enough spare cash to buy presents that are not made by you or come from charity shops?

Ironically the scenario of the boomers arriving at the family Christmas in a Mercedes then handing round presents made of stuffed socks with googly eyes stuck on and craft hedgehogs from the charity fair to their younger relatives is rather apposite.

ruggedtoast

MobileSaver wrote: »

Er, who said anything about 2.5 million per year?!?!

I don't know where you got your 27,000 figure from; the very factual site you yourself linked to states:

So I am sure even you can work out that that could easily equate to 2.5 million of "your generation" (i.e. "young people.")

Sigh.

The official UCAS figures for those who deferred are much lower and are below.

UCAS figuresL

For 2015 cycle year

5.4% of accepted applicants deferred a year (28,805 of 532,265)

Hint. The UCAS figures are right, the Natwest ones are not.

CLAPTON

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Ironically the scenario of the boomers arriving at the family Christmas in a Mercedes then handing round presents made of stuffed socks with googly eyes stuck on and craft hedgehogs from the charity fair to their younger relatives is rather apposite.

sadly in toxic toastie bedsit, their will be no boomer parents turning up with lovingly made xmax socks.