Advice needed please.

hyubh

jamsa wrote: »

Mr Corbyn recently stated that he thought it was quite wrong for those to have private pensions to be in receipt of a state pension when there is so little money to go around in an ageing population

Where did he state that then...

AnotherJoe

Yes I'd like to see a source for that since it would be political suicide. TM got a flea in her ear after suggesting changing the triple lock to double, and having the temerity to suggest means testing winter fuel payments.
No one who suggested means testing the main state pension would survive reelection in their own party let alone the electorate.

badmemory

AnotherJoe wrote: »

No one who suggested means testing the main state pension would survive reelection in their own party let alone the electorate.

And even if they did dare to try it they are talking about (at the very least or do I mean most?) people who already have so much income they are losing their personal allowance. What you are suggesting is that MPs are going to vote to lose their own state pensions. It's never going to happen. They can't even keep their own payrises down to what they insist others get.

jamsa

hyubh wrote: »

Where did he state that then...

I'm sorry I cant find it but genuinely read it last week as part of the quote from a speech/interview.
if means testing state pension it will basically mean you might get some but not all of it the less you have yourself the more you get from the state...so those that have planned are penalised yet again.

hyubh

jamsa wrote: »

I'm sorry I cant find it but genuinely read it last week as part of the quote from a speech/interview.

You appear to be alluding to a tenuous story in the Express...?

http://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/830922/State-pension-UK-means-test-retirement-saving-personal-finance

if means testing state pension it will basically mean you might get some but not all of it the less you have yourself the more you get from the state...so those that have planned are penalised yet again.

It's a bit pointless getting wound up about something that no current leading politician has actually proposed.

AnotherJoe

jamsa wrote: »

I'm sorry I cant find it but genuinely read it last week as part of the quote from a speech/interview.
if means testing state pension it will basically mean you might get some but not all of it the less you have yourself the more you get from the state...so those that have planned are penalised yet again.

So it turns out you've misremembered speculation by some "experts"and put words in JC's mouth.

Meanwhile,as an aside, the conservative government are doing effectively the same thing, cutting pensions, but for all, simply by moving the age back (despite the fact that life span increase is tailing off, as you'd expect, it's not indefinitely extensible!) yet no rabble rousing headlines that the gullible misinterpret as coming direct from a politicians mouth and even being a policy !

jamesd

It was something he mentioned in a TV interview a few weeks ago, it I recall correctly wondering aloud whether millionaires should get the state pension. Seemed more like a trial balloon than outright advocacy.

No sign of it being party policy yet, though given that the OECD was suggesting something of the sort it might end up there sometime.